Postdoctoral Fellow

Lori Severtson School of Nursing Faculty Supervisor: Patricia Brennan Email: djsevert@wisc.edu 263-5315

The goal of environmental risk communication is to provide people with the information they need to make informed independent judgments about risks to health, safety and the environment. I believe that informatics can be applied to advance this goal. My postdoctoral training goals are to learn about consumer-health informatics as a means to meet the information needs of the individual and public health informatics as a means to define at-risk populations for the purpose of tailoring messages to their situation. Another training goal is to learn about genomics and proteomics and how this information is being applied to assess and manage environmental health risks. My research goals are to apply dissertation research findings to develop and pilot test a user-centered arsenic well test report and supplementary information that can eventually be delivered electronically and linked to web-based information.

CV

CV 2004 ( pdf format)

Publications

Severtson, D.J. & Baumann, L.C. (manuscript submitted to Journal of Nursing Scholarship). A common sense approach to understanding responses to environmental health risks.

Severtson, D. J., Baumann, L. C., Shepard, R. L. (2004). A Utilization-Focused and Theory-based Evaluation of an Arsenic Well Testing Program. Alternate paper at the 2004 Best Education Practices (BEP) for Water Outreach Professionals Symposium. Paper will be available at http://www.uwex.edu/erc/waterbeps/
symposium.html.

Severtson, D.J., Baumann, L.C., & Will, J.A (2002). A participatory assessment of environmental health concerns in an Ojibwa community. Public Health Nursing 19(1), 47-58.

Porter, E. & Severtson, D. (2000). Potential effectiveness of parents’ actions to reduce children’s lead exposure. Journal of Pediatric Nursing (15)5, 282-291

Porter, E. & Severtson, D. (1997). Indicators of possible lead exposure among children attending public lead screening clinics: Implications for primary prevention. Public Health Nursing, 14(1), 12-19.

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