Academic Degrees
Departmental Address
525 E Wolfe St 453
Research and Professional Experience
Areas of expertise include: Public Health, Public Health Nursing, International health, Occupational and Environmental Health, developing innovative community interventions, community based participatory research, lay health workers, oral rehydration therapy
Honors and Awards
Nurse Hero Award, Maryland Daily Record, 2007
Maryland Association of Higher Education, Faculty of the Year Award, State of Maryland, 2004
Lillian Hiss-Ethel Crosby Outstanding Public Health Nurse Award, JHU School of Public Health,2004
Faculty of the Year Teaching Award, Undergraduate Programs JHU School of Nursing, 2004
Julie Community Center’s Best Award, 2003
Mayor’s Citation for Project HEAL, and for community service.2003, 2002
Excellence in Teaching, Caroline Pennington Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing,2000
Maryland Public Health Association, Community Health Nursing Student Project Award,1998
Selected Publications
Endyke-Doran, C, Gonzalez, RM, Trujullo, M Solera,A, Vigilance, P, Edwards,LA, Groves, (2007) The syphilis elimination project: Targeting the Hispanic community of Baltimore City. Public Health Nursing, 24(1) 40-47.
Rose, L., Pugh, L., Belcher, A., Edwards, LA., Walrath, J. Teaching beyond the classroom: Responding to a changing world and the chaning student. In proceedings from University of Toronto School of Nursing Conference on accelerated nursing programs, October 2006,
Edwards, LA. Programa Salud – Salud to your health, Advance for Nurses, 2006.8(2), 18-42
Van Zandt SE, Edwards LA, Jordan ET, Lower epidural anesthesia use associated with labor support by student nurse doulas: Implications for intrapartal nursing practice. Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. 2005. 11(3), 153-160.
Edwards, LA. “Settling the Resettled”, presentation APHA, December 2005.
Goepp JG, Chin NP, Massad J, Edwards LA. Pediatric Emergency Department Outreach: Solving medical problems or revealing community solutions? J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2004;15(4): 522-529.
Hack, H., Fisher, M.L., and Edwards, L.A . (2004) Addressing the need for nurses in humanitarian emergencies. Nurse Practitioner World News, 9 (2), 1-10.
