Dr. Luth M. Tenorio College of Nursing Dean's Endowed Lectureship

Dr. Tener Veenema is Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Senior Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she designs and leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and health care worker protection during disasters and large-scale biological events. As an internationally recognized expert in disaster nursing and public health emergency preparedness, she has conducted national workforce analyses evaluating emergency health care worker readiness for disaster response on behalf of the Ministries of Health in Ireland and Japan and in the United States. Dr. Veenema is an expert in workforce development and has taught public health preparedness for more than 25 years. She is the author of 4 national e-learning courses in public health preparedness for health care providers (Coursera, Elsevier, MC Strategies, American Red Cross).

Dr. Jenerette is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in the College of Nursing at the University of South Carolina. She earned a PhD and MSN in nursing from the University of South Carolina and her BSN from Clemson University. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Yale University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has an internationally recognized research program focused on enhancing self and family management of sickle cell disease. She was drawn to this research as a staff nurse when she witnessed the disparities in pain management as lived by those who lived with sickle cell disease and the inequities in care that were fueled by social determinants of health. Dr. Jenerette is a servant leader, exquisite nurse scientist, and social justice advocate.