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Assistant Professor Jessica Devido is an educator, researcher and clinician with a particular interest in maternal and children's health. A board certified pediatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Devido has worked as an obstetric nurse, and she is the current past president of the Three Rivers Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
Specifically, her research interests include health promotion and disease prevention for at-risk childbearing age women and their offspring utilizing a community engaged approach. She also has specific interest in the disparity that exists in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality for African Americans, particularly in the local area as well as lactation support for at-risk mothers. Her previous work is with preconception counseling for women with diabetes. As a recipient of grant funding from both the American Association of Diabetes Educators and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Dr. Devido has been principal investigator on mixed-methods research in the area of diabetes education among parish nurses. She has also been part of a research team on multiple NIH-funded research projects related to preconception counseling for women with diabetes. More recently her research partner and herself hadtwo funded projects which includes: "Wise Women: an untapped community asset," which utilized Dr. Devido's preliminary work during her dissertation as a catalyst to explore existing networks of "Wise Women" for health-related information exchange. The second project, "A Community of Well Women, Well Babies: a vocational pipeline for African-American girls" was funded by the Rice Fellows program at Duquesne University.
Education
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
- MSN, University of Pittsburgh
- BSN, University of Pittsburgh
Expertise
- Community-engaged research
- Philosophy of biology and medicine
- Health disparities
- Maternal/child health
- Health promotion
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- Kesler, E., Devido, J., Zoucha, R., & Wilson, E. (2024). Exploring the experiences, cultural values, and perceptions of mothers of hospitalized newborns in Malawi: An integrative review of the literature. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 36(2), 168-183.
- Kolesar, A. L., Karakachian, A., Devido, J., Lucas, D., & DeLuca, K. (2024). Recognizing and responding to poverty in college students: What can nurses do? The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 29(1), 1-10.
- Lynn Herr, S., Devido, J., Zoucha, R., & Demirci, J. R. (2024). Dysphoric milk ejection reflex in human lactation: An integrative literature review. Journal Of Human Lactation: Official Journal of International Lactation Consultant Association, 40(2), 237–247.
- Appelt, C., Simpson, A., Devido, J., Greenwald, S., & Urban, B. (2022). Working together for health equity: How a multidisciplinary, community-engaged partnership reframed our understandings of Pittsburgh’s maternal-child health crisis. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, 9(1),72-96.
Leveraging a Menstrual Cycle App to Develop a Standardized Method for Collecting Menstrual
Health Data: A Community Engaged Pilot Study
Funder: Eugene P. Beard Presidential Prize for Innovation and Distinction
Role: Co-PI
Date: 2025-2026
Integration of a Community Navigator and Cultural Advisor in Community Engaged Teaching
and Research
Funder: Heinz Endowments
Role: PI
Date 2022
Funder: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Role: Macy Faculty Scholar
Date: September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023
- School of Nursing Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching - 2019
- Gaultier Teaching Fellow - 2018
- Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania Award Finalist for Nursing Education: Academia - 2017
- Presidential Scholarship Award - 2017
- Nursing Faculty Excellence in Service Award - 2017
- Community Leadership and Service Award from the Three Rivers Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) - 2015
- Named a Rice Fellow by the Duquesne University Center for Catholic Intellectual Tradition for her project, "Well Woman, Well Babies" with Dr. Cathleen Appelt, Duquesne faculty member and community partner, Celeta Hickman. - 2015
- Recipient of the Rita Carty Junior Faculty Award - 2015
- Nominated by peers to represent the University and the School of Nursing with the Graduate and Professional Student Government in Harrisburg, Pa. Presented personal program of research to state representatives and policy makers. - 2013
- GAANN Fellow - 2013