Robin Bartlett, Ph.D., R.N.

Education: 
PhD, Nursing, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2003
MSN, Nursing Administration, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 1987
BSN, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 1978

​Recent Grant Awards:
Health Sciences & Technology Academy – Alabama (HSTA-AL). Bartlett, R. (PI), Montgomery, M. (Co-PI), Mumba, M. (Co-PI), Johnson, P. (Co-PI), & Lester, B. (Co-PI). Funded June 1, 2021. National Institute of Health (NIH), Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)

​Biography: 
Dr. Bartlett is a professor and associate dean for research in the Capstone College of Nursing (CCN). She and a team of CCN collaborators were funded in 2021 with a 5-year Science Education Partnership Award from NIGMS/NIH to replicate West Virginia’s Health Science & Technology Academy (HSTA) in Alabama. HSTA – Alabama is a program designed to build a more diverse nursing, nurse faculty, nurse scientist and other biomedical professions workforce from among rural, primarily African American, economically disadvantaged students. She is also conducting pilot work to inform an intervention with elementary school-aged boys from underserved backgrounds with the goal of helping them improve their health and psychosocial outcomes in the future. Dr. Bartlett’s primary research focus is in understanding and prevention of risk behaviors, primarily among underserved youth. Broadly, she is interested in health disparities research. She has conducted intervention studies focused on the prevention of risky sex behaviors that could lead to negative health outcomes for African American and Latinx adolescent girls. Other areas of research/methods interest include parenting, interdisciplinary research, health systems research, analyses of existing data, and community-based participatory research.