Faculty Profile

Christine Stevens, RN, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Nursing, University of Washington, 2004.

Dr. Christine Stevens received her PhD (2004) from the University of Washington Seattle, MPH (1994) from California State University Northridge and BSN (1976) from Seattle University.

Dr. Stevens teaches undergraduate and graduate students in community health including classes in the Health and Society Minor. She has developed electives to incorporate her research interests which include adolescent health and promoting health through social marketing.

Dr. Stevens' research focus is working with adolescents addressing health disparities due to the issues of race, class, access, and gender. She has employed numerous research methods to explore the perceptions of adolescent mothers and the barriers to their health, issues of food insecurity, and the use of technology to assist adolescents to obtain health information.

Scholarly Interests:

• Adolescent health
• Community health
• Health disparities

Methodologies:

• Visual methodologies (including photovoice)
• Ethnography
• Qualitative methods

Research:

Teen Text Media Program (TTMP) grant under review
Co-PI

Salishan Hope IV Evaluation
Study of a Multi-Ethnic housing development
PI of project

Nurse Retention Study - Two Year Longitudinal Study
Factors that influence new RN retention within the first two years following graduation
Funding: Middleton Family Grant
Stevens & Moceri, Co-PIs

Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities, Pilot study funding
Food insecurity of Female Head of Households (ages 15- 24)

Principal investigator, Images and Voices: Adolescent Mothers
Negotiating Socioeconomic Environments and Health, Dissertation, University of Washington

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