Overview
Dr Felsman’s expertise is in global and community/public health. Her scholarship focuses on the development of culturally aligned interventions to improve health for families in diverse populations in local and global settings. She has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the US in various roles, which include direct clinical care, program design, implementation and evaluation, and training/education. Her clinical background includes maternal-child health, pediatrics, and community mental health. Her scholarly emphasis is on psycho-social health with a focus on acculturation stress, resilience, and drivers of health for refugee and Latinx immigrant populations in the US, including disparities in health care access and health literacy. She is proficient in Spanish.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Artificial Intelligence and Admissions to Health Professions Educational Programs: A Scoping Review.
Journal Article Nurse educator · October 2024 BackgroundThe use of large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to prepare health professions admissions applications is increasing. These tools can improve writing significantly but raise ethical concerns about applicatio ... Full text CiteAcculturative Stress, Resilience, and a Syndemic Factor Among Latinx Immigrants.
Journal Article Nursing research · July 2023 BackgroundThe process of immigration and subsequent adaptation can expose Latinx immigrants to chronic and compounding challenges (i.e., acculturative stress), but little is known about how resilience factors and these stressors interact to influe ... Full text CiteDocumentation Status and Self-Rated Physical Health Among Latinx Young Adult Immigrants: the Mediating Roles of Immigration and Healthcare Stress.
Journal Article J Racial Ethn Health Disparities · April 2023 Previous research has demonstrated that undocumented Latinx immigrants in the USA report worse physical health outcomes than documented immigrants. Some studies suggest that immigration-related stress and healthcare related-stress may explain this relation ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
SER Familia: A Family-Based Intervention Addressing Syndemic Conditions among Latino Immigrant Families
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029KBR 2.0 Project FIEL NC (Fostering Insurance Enrollment among Latinx in NC)
Public ServiceCollaborator · Awarded by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust · 2024 - 2026Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Mobile Health Training Program (NEPQR-MHTP)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEParticipating Faculty Member · Awarded by Health Resources and Service Administration · 2022 - 2026View All Grants