Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN, Professor and Department Chair for Community Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Her practice and research examines the consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Specifically, her research and practice focuses on the effects of IPV on the physical and mental health of pregnant women, infants and very young children.

She is the recipient of a $3.5 M 5 year research grant funded by NINR to test a public health nurse home visit intervention to reduce effects of IPV among pregnant women and their newborns. She is also the co-PI for a grant funded by the Center of Minority Health and Health Disparities to examine the health effects and interaction between HIV/AIDs and violence against women among African American and African Caribbean women in the

  Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN
Professor and Department Chair for Community Public Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
 

USA and US Virgin Islands. This project is collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University and the University of the Virgin Islands Schools of Nursing. She has published numerous papers and made many presentations on the impact of IPV on women’s, children and family health. She is frequently requested to do training and workshops related to IPV against pregnant women for National Health Start Programs and the Family Violence Prevention Fund.  She is the also the coordinator of a nurse managed clinic in a shelter for homeless battered women and their children.  Dr. Sharps received her baccalaureate in nursing from the University of Maryland (Baltimore), a master’s in maternal and child nursing from the University of Delaware and her doctorate in nursing research from the University of Maryland (Baltimore). Other academic positions have included coordinator for women’s health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and track director for maternal health at The George Washington University School of Public Health.

Dr. Sharps was inducted into the America Academy of Nursing in 2003, is the chair of the Academy’s Expert Panel on Violence and a member of the Institute of Medicine Board on Military and Veteran’s Health.