Shawna Beese, PhD RN
Welcome!
After a rewarding 20-year career as a nurse leader, including 12 years in hospital administration, I returned to graduate school in 2019 to pursue a PhD in Nursing with a focus on population health. I aimed to shift my work toward community-based health promotion. Currently, I serve as an assistant professor of rural health promotion at Washington State University Extension through the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. In my faculty role, my research program focuses on two main areas:
- data-driven insights into neighborhood influences on individual stress responses (CHORDS Lab),
- and rural community capacity building, emphasizing ‘Neighboring’ as a health promotion strategy.