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Faculty
Susan J. Zahner, DrPH, RN
Associate Professor
DrPH, University of California–Berkeley; Health Policy and Management
MPH, University of Minnesota; Public Health Nursing
BSN, University of Iowa; Nursing
Office Location: H6/246 CSC
Telephone: (608) 263-5282
E-mail: sjzahner@wisc.edu
Susan Zahner's research interests include local public health system performance; public health performance measurement; public health nursing practice improvement; public health workforce development; and evaluation of continuing education approaches for public health nursing preceptors.
Representative Publications
Zahner, S.J. (1999). Public Health Nursing and Immunization Surveillance. Public Health Nursing, 16(6), 384-389.
Zahner, S.J. (2000). Ethics Content in Community Health Nursing Textbooks. Nurse Educator, 25 (4), 186-194.
Zahner, S.J. (2001). Memoranda of Understanding Between Medicaid MCOs and Public Health Departments. Managed Care, 10(9), 47-52.
Zahner, S.J. (2002). Evaluation of Mandated Memoranda of Understanding between Local Health Departments and Medicaid Managed Care Plans. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 8(5), 11-21.
Zahner, S.J. and Vandermause, R. (2003). Local Health Department Performance: Compliance with State Statutes and Rules. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 9(1), 25-34.
Zahner, S.J. and Corrado, S.M. (2004). Local Health Department Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10(3): 258-265.
Zahner, S.J. (2005). Local Public Health System Partnerships. Public Health Reports, 120(1): 76-83.
Zahner, S.J. Kaiser, B., Kapelke-Dale, J. (2005). Local Partnerships for Community Assessment and Planning. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 11(5): 460-464.
Zahner, S.J. Gredig, Q.B. (2005). Public Health Nursing Practice Change and Recommendations for Improvement. Public Health Nursing, 22(5): 422-428.
Zahner, S.J. Gredig, Q.B. (2005). Improving Public Health Nursing Education: Recommendations of Local Public Health Nurses. Public Health Nursing, 22(5): 445-450.
Zahner, S.J. Block, D.E. (2006). The Road to Population Health: Using Healthy People 2010 in Nursing Education. Journal of Nursing Education, 45(3): 105-108.
Zahner, S.J. (2006). Partnerships for Learning Population-based Public Health Nursing: Web-delivered continuing education for public health nurse preceptors. Public Health Nursing, 23(6):538-545.
Boeke, M., Zahner, S.J., Booske, B., Remington, P. (2008). Local health department funding: Trends over time and relationship to health outcomes. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 107(1): 25-32.
Royer, H., Zahner, S.J. (2009). Providers experiences with young people's cognitive representations and emotions related to prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infrections. Public Health Nursing, 26(2):161-172.
Zahner, S.J., Tipple, S., Rather, M., Schendzielos, C. (2009). Supporting nurse preceptors through online continuing education. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 40(10):468-74.
Selected Awards and Honors
Wisconsin Public Health Association, Excellence in Public Health Research Award, 2006
Van Hise Outreach Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006
Wisconsin Public Health Association, Presidential Citation Award, 2005
Academy Health Annual Conference, Most Outstanding Abstract, Public Health Theme, 2003