Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
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Sarah McKasson

Colorado School of Public Health; 13001 E. 17th Street, B119, Room W3134; Aurora CO 80045; USA

Biography

Sarah McKasson, Research and Evaluation Analyst, helps coordinate activities for national evaluations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII). She also provides evaluation support internally at NNPHI. Before joining NNPHI, Ms. McKasson served as a graduate research assistant at the Mary Amelia Women's Health Education Center and primarily focused on quantitative analysis for a multitude of maternal and childhood health research projects. Ms. McKasson studied epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana and received her MPH in 2012. She has a BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Publications

Statewide Breastfeeding Education Program Improves Maternity Staff Knowledge, Attitudes and Self-Efficacy

Louisiana breastfeeding rates are among the lowest in the United States with associated infant mortality and morbidity rates among the highest. To increase maternity nursing staff breastfeeding knowledge and to improve attitudes and self-efficacy towards evidence-based promotion of breastfeeding, a six contact-hour program promoting the state’... Read More»

Susie Amick, Jane Savage, Marci Brewer, Maeve Wallace and Sarah McKasson

Research Article: J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2016, 2:4

DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000139

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