Jennifer Cooper

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Awards & Recognitions

Frederick County Touching Lives Award (2022)

The National Forum For Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention Heart Healthy Stroke Free Award (2020)

The George Washington University Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award (2020)

Maryland Higher Education Commission Academic Nurse Educator Certification Award (2019)

Maryland Higher Education Commission Nursing Educator Doctoral Grant (2017)

American Association of Colleges of Nursing & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Academic Practice Partnership 2015-2016 DNP Evidence-Based Project in Population Health

Projects

Hood College 2021 Summer Research Institute (Public Health in Action: The Frederick County Community Health Assessment Process)

Hood Million Hearts® (2018 - present)

Hood College 2018 Summer Research Institute (Hood Million Hearts®)

Association of Public Health Nurses

• Academic Practice Partnership Task Force, Co-Lead (2021 - present)
• Million Hearts® Collaboration (2015 - present)
• Association of State & Territorial Health Officials Million Hearts® State and Local Hypertension Focused Model (2018)
• Association of State & Territorial Health Officials Million Hearts® State Learning Collaborative (2014 - 2017)
• American Association on Health & Disability Breast Cancer Awareness for Women with Disabilities (2016 - 2019)

Publications

Kneipp, S. M., Edmonds, J. K., Cooper, J., Campbell, L.A., Little, S. H., & Mix, A.K. (2022). Enumeration of Public Health Nurses in the United States: Limits of Current Standards.  American Journal of Public Health.  https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306782

Hannan, J.A., Commodore-Mensah, Y., Tokieda, N., Smith, A.P., Gawlik, K.S., Murakami, L., Cooper, J., Koob, S. Wright, K.D., Cassarino, D., Arslanian-Engoren, C. & Melnyk, B.M. (2022). Improving hypertension control and cardiovascular health: An urgent call to action for nursing. Worldviews on Evidenced-Based Nursing, 00, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12560

Cooper, J., Bejster, M., Policicchio, J., Langhorne, T., Jackson, S., Shelton, P. & Toney, S. (2021) Public Health Nursing and Community Health Worker Teams, Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 44 (4): 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1097/JAC.0000000000000393

Cooper, J. (2021). An Academic-Practice Partnership to Advance Million Hearts®.  Journal of Nursing Education, 60(2): 103-106.https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20210120-09

Zimmerman, W. & Cooper, J. (2020). From the Perspective of the Public Health Department. Solari-Twadell, A. Ziebarth, D, & Dyess, S. (Eds), Faith Community Nursing: An International Specialty Practice Changing the Understanding of Health. Springer International Publishing.

Cooper, J., Hahn, J. & Revesz, M. (2019).  An Academic Nursing Project to Advance Million Hearts® (abstract from April 2019 poster). Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal, 3 (2), 86. https://library.osu.edu/ojs/index.php/BHAC/article/view/7286/5439

Cooper, J. & Zimmerman, W. (2017). The Effect of a Faith Community Nurse Network and Public Health Collaboration on Hypertension Prevention and Control. Public Health Nursing, 34 (3), 444-453. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phn.12325

Cooper, J. & Zimmerman, W. (2016). The Evaluation of a Regional Faith Community Network’s Million Hearts® Program. Public Health Nursing, 33 (1) 53-64. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phn.12222

Cooper, J. & McCarter, K. (2014).  The Development of a Chronic Care Management Program for Older Adults. Public Health Nursing, 31(1) 36-43. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phn.12049

DeVandry, S. & Cooper, J. (2009). Mandating Nurse Staffing in Pennsylvania:  More Than a Numbers Game.  Journal of Nursing Administration, 39 (11), 470-478.