Jeannette O. Andrews, PhD, APRN-BC, FNP
Associate Dean for Research and Evaluation
Director, Center for Community Health Partnerships
Associate Professor

Medical University of South Carolina
College of Nursing
99 Jonathan Lucas Street
MSC 160
Charleston, SC 29425-1600

Telephone: (843) 792-1188
Fax: (843) 792-2104
andrewj@musc.edu

Dr. Jeannette Andrews is the Associate Dean for Research and Evaluation and the Director of the Center for Community Health Partnerships in the College of Nursing.  Prior to coming to the Medical University of South Carolina in January 2008, Dr. Andrews was Department Chair, research scientist, and chair of the Health Disparities Advisory Board and research interest group at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Andrews received her Bachelors degree in nursing at the Medical College of Georgia, Masters in nursing at Georgia Southern University, and Doctorate in Nursing Science at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Andrews is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner.  She is a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow, co-founder of the national coalition Nurses for Tobacco Control, and past president of Sigma Theta Tau's Beta Omicron Chapter. She is a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, American Thoracic Society, American Public Health Association, Southern Nursing Research Society, American Nurses Association, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, and Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science.  She has received numerous awards including the NPACE National Nurse Practitioner Award, Veterans Affairs National Professional Nurse Award, Georgia Nurses Association Nurse of the Year, University of South Carolina's Outstanding Dissertation Award, and Medical College of Georgia's Emerging Scientist Award.

Dr. Andrews' research interests are community-based participatory research and cardiovascular risk reduction, with a special emphasis on smoking cessation and obesity interventions in African American women.  She has over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Ethnicity & Disease, Nursing Research, Preventive Medicine, and Research in Nursing & Health.  She has received funding from National Institute of Nursing Research, National Cancer Institute, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Georgia Cancer Coalition, American Cancer Society, and the American Legacy Foundation.

Dr. Andrews teaches in the doctoral program with a focus on health disparities research, community based participatory research, measurement, and quantitative methods.   She has a joint appointment in the College of Graduate Studies.