Shawna Hudson

Dr. Shawna Hudson is Vice Chancellor for Dissemination and Implementation Science for Rutgers Health and Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Research at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is also founding director of the school’s Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Patient-Centered Care (CARE-PC). Dr. Hudson is a full research member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program where she previously served as the Director of Community Research and Acting Director of Community Outreach. She has a secondary faculty appointment in the Rutgers School of Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy. Dr. Hudson currently serves as Director for the Community Engagement Core of the NJ Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) – a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She led its $5 million NIH-funded Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations initiative to improve outreach and access to COVID-19 testing within New Jersey vulnerable and underserved communities.

Publications:

• Pellerano M, Hill D, Jimenez ME, Gordon M, Macenat M, Ferrante JM, Rivera-Núñez Z, Devance D, Lima D, Sullivan B, Crabtree BF, Georgopoulos P, Barrett ES, Reed DJ, Pernell, CT, Dawkins MR, Lynn B, Dixon F, Castañeda M, Garcia H, Blaser MJ, Panettieri RA, HUDSON SV. Connect: Cultivating academic/community partnerships to address our communities' complex needs during public health crises. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. 2023; 17(3), 447-464.

• Jimenez ME, Rivera-Nunez Z, Crabtree BF, Hill D, Pellerano MB, Devance D, Macenat M, Lima D, Martinez Alcaraz E, Ferrante JM, Barrett ES, Blaser MJ, Panettieri RA, Jr., HUDSON SV. Black and Latinx Community Perspectives on COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors, Testing, and Vaccines. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(7):e2117074. Epub 2021/07/16. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.17074. PubMed PMID: 34264327; PMCID: PMC8283554

• Krist AH, South Paul JE, Hudson SV, Meisnere M, Singer SJ, Kudler H. Rethinking Health and Health Care: How Clinicians and Practice Groups Can Better Promote Whole Health and Well-Being for People and Communities. Med Clin North Am. 2023;107(6):1121-44. Epub 20230723. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2023.06.001. PubMed PMID: 37806727.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study - Testing Overlooked Occupations (NJ HEROES TOO), Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics in Underserved Populations (RADxUp) Governance Committee [comprises NIH Institute and Center Directors and other NIH senior leadership], February 8, 2024, Invited Presentation

Accomplishments:

• Steering Committee, Black Bodies, Black Health: Centering humanistic and social scientific fields to identify strategies needed to disrupt structural racism as a determinant of health and well-being, Rutgers University

• Health Equity Committee, Stand Up To Cancer

• Health Equity Committee, New Jersey Reparations Council, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

Upcoming Projects:

• National Cancer Institute, ACCESS-PC: Advancing Care Coordination to Enhance Shared Care for Complex Cancer Survivors in Primary Care, MPI: Denalee O’Malley (contact MPI), Jeanne Ferrante (MPI), Shawna Hudson (MPI)., NCI U01CA290653-01. $616,00 [annual direct], $4,835,600 [total], 05/1/2024 – 04/30/2029.

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Learning Health System Scientist Training And Research in New Jersey (LHS STAR NJ), MPI: Shawna Hudson SV (Contact PI) and Ethan Halm (MPI), P30HS029759-01, $847,500 [annual direct], 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2029.

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Reducing Urban Cervical Cancer Disparities Using a Tailored mHealth Intervention to Enhance Colposcopy Attendance, MPI: Suzanne Miller (contact PI), Shawna Hudson (MPI) and Kuang-Yi Wen (MPI), R01MD017675-01A1, NIMHD, $1,188,710 [total Rutgers subcontract], 07/15/2023 – 03/31/2028.

I am a commmunity-engaged, primary care researcher working with vulnerable populations at the intersections of community health, primary care and specialty care. I focus on primary care because it is a patient’s entrée into the medical system. It’s the first stop for screening, it’s where coordination among medical subspecialties is critical, and it’s a point of leverage to address health disparities.