Dr. Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Dr. Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong is a Fellow of the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a Senior Fellow of the Coalition of Communities of Color Leaders Bridges – Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Institute. She holds a PhD in Nursing in cancer health disparities, health inequities, and education from Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing and completed an invited Postdoctoral fellowship in the Research in Individual and Family Symptom Management Program at the same institution. Dr. Nguyen-Truong is an elected Council Board Advisor on the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization Pacific Islander & Asian Family Center Advisory Council Board, an appointed Board Director of Sigma Delta Chi Chapter-At-Large Board and Governance Committee, and member of the Asian American/ Pacific Islander Nurses Association – affiliated with the National Ethnic Minority Nurses Association. She has 20 years of combined nursing expertise as a nurse scientist, educator, population/community health nursing, and intermediate and progressive care clinical nursing. Her program of culturally diverse and transdisciplinary/multi-sectoral research regards academic and community-engaged research justice.

The following scholarly lines of inquiry is under the umbrella of Health Equity, Anti-Racism, and Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice.

1) Advocacy and action-oriented coalitions – culturally specific, disaggregated data and community organizing with diverse communities including immigrants and marginalized communities for health promotion across the lifespan.

2) Micronesian Islanders – advocacy and system changes in health and education and addressing childhood inequity through uplifting parenting and disability justice leadership.

3) Community-based smart health technology adoption and data – addressing bias in artificial intelligence through diversity and nurses and community health workers in the smart health system. Dr. Nguyen-Truong is the Director and Founder of the Culturally Safe Didactic Dialogue Circles Program and a Director and Co-Founder of the Health and Education Program for Micronesian Islanders that is funded in part by her research grants.