In this fifth podcast episode, Ahmad Qawi, Racine Family YMCA President/CEO is joined by Teresa S. Johnson, PhD, RN, Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and researcher in infant health measures and infant mortality rates to discuss the 5 Social Determinants of Health in providing healthy outcomes: Economic Stability, Education, Health & Health Care, Neighborhood and Built Environment and Social & Community Context and the challenges vulnerable populations experience in achieving healthy outcomes.
Teresa S. Johnson received her Bachelor of Science from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, Masters in Nursing degree from University of Kansas, and doctoral degree from University of Illinois at Chicago. She has many years of clinical, teaching and research experience with newborns and their families. Her research with newborns has centered on infant health measures such as infant size at birth as a reflection of fetal growth, care and study of the breastfeeding mother-infant dyad in in- and outpatient settings, and barriers to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, especially among high-risk populations. She is also leading a team to study infant mortality in a small urban community in SE Wisconsin. She looks for opportunities to include undergraduate and graduate students in her research. She practices as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and nurse/research consultant for Wheaton-Franciscan Healthcare in Racine. She has several publications in both nursing and interdisciplinary journals.

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