Yenupini Joyce Adams

Yenupini (Joyce) Adams, PhD, BSN, is the lead principal investigator on this project, and an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame. Her clinical expertise is in maternal/newborn nursing. Adams is passionate about using research and community interventions to improve maternal health, promote safe motherhood, and decrease maternal morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa, where the burden of maternal mortality is most severe. Her research addresses maternal health disparities that lead to mortality. As PI and Co-I, she has conducted funded patient focused research and disseminated findings in highly ranked peer-reviewed nursing journals. She has a good record of collaboration with interdisciplinary colleagues from nursing, public health, psychology/neuroscience, engineering, non-governmental organizations, public health departments, and healthcare systems. She is a past recipient of the prestigious AACN/Johnson & Johnson Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars Award by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.