Professional Activities
Professional Activities
PROFESSIONAL: Journal Reviewer:
05/3/21: Reviewer: Manuscript: Media use, positive and negative emotions, and stress levels of adults in the COVID-19 pandemic. For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
04/12/21: Reviewer: Manuscript: Fundamental elements in training patient navigators and their involvement in promoting public cervical cancer screening knowledge and practices: A systematic review. For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
07/25/20: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Barriers to Women's Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors: A Meta-synthesis Study.” For the Health Care for Women International journal.
06/16/20: Reviewer: Manuscript: "Developing an in-facility intervention to manage compassion fatigue in oncology nurses in Durban, South Africa – A mixed methods approach.” For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
01/15/2020: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Interactive Web-based Breastfeeding Monitoring Improves Maternal Self-efficacy and Satisfaction among Full-term Infants after Hospital Discharge: A repeated-measures randomized controlled trial.” For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
O7/8/19: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Integration of Mother’s Breast Milk as a Sensory Intervention for Preterm Infant Pain during Peripheral Venipuncture Procedures: A repeated-measures randomized controlled trial.” For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
03/21/19: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Content validity of the Nursing Diagnosis Ineffective infant feeding pattern (IIFP)”. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
02/07/19: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Anxiety in hospice in patients with advanced cancer, from the perspective of their loved ones: A qualitative study.” For Journal of Nursing Scholarship
12/22/18: Reviewer: Manuscript: Effect Mobile Text Messaging on Breast Cancer and Breast Self-Examination (BSE) Knowledge, BSE Self-Efficacy, and BSE Frequency: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” For Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
12/2018: Reviewer: Manuscript: “What Benefits and Harms Are Important For a Decision About? Cervical Screening? A Study of the Perspective of Different Subgroups of Women.” For Dove Press Open Access Journal
10/5/18: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Reporting the Narrative Synthesis in Systematic Review of The African Cervical Cancer Screening Behavior: The Rosenstock Health Belief Model Assessment.” For Health Care for Women International Journal.
11/04/18: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Exploring the level of knowledge of cervical cancer among women in Sub-Saharan Africa and finding out whether this constitutes a barrier to cervical cancer screening in the region. A systematic review. Journal of Social Science and Medicine.
04/10/18: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Screening Barriers and Facilitators as Predictors of Women’s Cervical Cancer Screening Attendance.” ScholarOne Open Journal.
10/01/18: Reviewer: Manuscript: Genital Mutilation In Africa (Fgm/C): Scoping The Landscape Of Evidence. Journal of Nursing Scholarship
11/2017: Reviewer: Manuscript: “Men’s Awareness of Cervical Cancer: A Qualitative study” for the BMJ Open Journal.
10/2017: Reviewer: Revisiting Retrospective Chart Review: An Evaluation of Nursing Home Palliative and End- of-Life Care Research.
11/04/17: Reviewer: Manuscript entitled, “Increased proportion of HIV-infected women met cervical cancer screening guidelines in 2016. For International journal of Women’s Health.
09/09/16: Reviewer: Manuscript entitled "Women’s knowledge and experiences with cervical cancer screening and referral pathways in Cape Town, South Africa: A qualitative analysis." for BMJ Open.
09/09/16: Reviewer: Manuscript entitled: "Challenges of integrating cervical cancer screening into sexual and reproductive health consultations in resource-constrained settings: mixed-methods results from Kenya and Swaziland." for ScholarOne on-line Journal.
Dissertations Reviews
02/12/21: Co-Reviewer: co-reviewed a doctoral dissertation proposal. Auteri, Best
12/3/19: External Reviewer: Profiling Lived Experiences Of ‘Ever Pregnant’ Adolescents: From Evidence To Action Toward Improving The Health Of Adolescents. University of South Africa (UNISA).
08/2018: External Reviewer: Strategy For Transition Of Adolescents With Intellectual Disabilities Into
Adulthood in South Africa. Health Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA).
07/2017: External Reviewer: Intervention Strategies For The Production Of Sexual Risk Practices Among
Adolescents In Ethiopia. Health Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA).
07/2017: External Reviewer: Psychosocial Barriers Experienced by HIV Positive Adolescents Aged 15-19
Years in Adhering to Antiretroviral therapy at Chitungwiza Central Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe. Health Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA).
10/2016: External Reviewer: Doctoral Dissertation: A Strategy For Effective Tuberculosis
Contact Traising (TBCT ) In Botswana, Health Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA).
07/2015: External Reviewer: Doctoral Dissertation: “HIV and AIDS-Related Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Strategy in Health Care Settings of Amahara Region, Ethiopia.” University of South Africa (UNISA)
07/2015: External Reviewer: Doctoral Dissertation: “Evaluation of the Impact of the Information-Behavioral Skill Model of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Ethiopia.” University of South Africa (UNISA)
.April 2015: Reviewer: Student posters on the Adelphi University Research Day.
.March 2015: Doctoral dissertation committee member. Adelphi University.
.December 2014: Committee member: PhD dissertation proposal defense. Adelphi University.
.2014. External Examiner: Doctoral Dissertation: “Quantitative Determinants of Need and Demand For Primary Care in the District of Columbia.” University of South Africa (UNISA).
.2014: External Examiner: Doctoral Dissertation: “On-Line Learning Among Health Studies’ Students at An Open Distance Learning Institution: Prospects and Challenges for Interactivity,” University of South Africa (UNISA).
April 2014: Reviewer: Student posters on the Adelphi University Research Day.
.April 2013: Reviewer: Student posters on the Adelphi University Research Day.
•April 2012: Reviewer: Student posters on the Adelphi University Research Day.
April 2013: External Examiner: Master of Arts Thesis: “Patients’ and Nurses’ Knowledge and Understanding of Laparascopic Surgery in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa." University of South Africa (UNISA).
February, 2013: External Examiner: Doctoral Dissertation: “Promoting the Implementation of Collaborative Tuberculosis and Human immunodeficiency Virus Activities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.” University of South Africa (UNISA).
January 2013: Committee Member: DoctoralDissertation:“Reconceptualizing Mothering: Women from Mexico Mothering transnationally,” Adelphi University.
May 14, 2012: Co-evaluator: Doctoral Dissertation. “The Culture of Night Nursing,” Adelphi University.
May 12, 2011: Co-evaluator: “The process of mothering an obese child:” A Doctoral Dissertation.Adelphi University
2004: Co-Supervisor: MA Public Health Thesis: “Barriers Toward Cervical Cancer Screening Program Implementation within the Private Health Care Sector in Soshanguve, University of South Africa (UNISA), 2004.
.2015: Participating in the Forest Hills Episcopal Church activities.
.2014: Participated actively in the Tonota Village (Botswana) centenary celebration preparations
.Tonota (Botswana)Development Support Group for community empowerment (co-founder)
-Anglican Church Mother’s Union member.
-Cancer Association: Botswana.
