Maren Coffman, PhD, RN, CNE

Dr. Maren Coffman is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include population health, health promotion, and access to health care. Dr. Coffman has extensive experience working in the Latino community and is fluent in Spanish. She has been awarded internal and external research grants including the American Nurses Foundation Presidential Scholar award. In 2009, she was one of 15 nurse educators from around the country to receive a three-year $350,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar award. Dr. Coffman was a co-investigator on a 5-year National Institutes of Health funded study to examine social determinants of health in the Latino community.

Dr. Coffman is passionate about international education and has developed and led numerous study abroad programs to destinations including Mexico, Costa Rica, and Cuba. Dr. Coffman is a Certified Nurse Educator and enjoys mentoring students, and teaching health disparities and research methods courses. Dr. Coffman provides faculty leadership to the Academy for Population Health Innovation, a partnership between UNC Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Health

AReas of Research

Population Health, Health Disparities

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