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Schenita Davis Randolph

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
307 Trent Drive, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710

Research Interests


Dr. Randolph is passionate about partnering with the community to address inequities in health through socially and culturally relevant strategies. The impact of Dr. Randolph’s work addresses sexual health inequities among Black male adolescents and young adults (AYA) and Black women in the United States through community and stakeholder engagement approaches.  Dr. Randolph’s research is shifting the approach to sexual health among Black AYA with the first nurse-led, parent-adolescent intervention providing tools for parents to address HIV risk transmission and racial discrimination as interrelated public health issues. She is also addressing sexual health inequities among Black women by addressing barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) (a medication if taken consistently decreases HIV risk) such as PrEP stigma and distrust, as PrEP uptake among Black women is low, and interventions are limited.

Selected Grants


Nurse LEADS: Training in Nurse-LEd models of care ADdressing the Social Determinants of Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2029

Community Partnered Engagement to Reduce Violence Among Youth of Color

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation · 2025 - 2026

BLACK NURSE SCIENTIST PROGRAM (BNSP)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Davis · 2023 - 2024

Engaging Black Men in Digital Health to Improve Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes: An Iterative Participatory Design Approach

FellowshipCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2022

Race and COVID 19

Public ServiceCo Investigator · Awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute · 2020 - 2021

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Fellow American Academy of Nursing · October 2022 Awarded by: American Association of Nursing The American Academy of Nursing's approximately 2,900 Fellows are nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research.Fellowship is more than recognition of one's accomplishments within the nursing profession. Academy Fellows also have a responsibility to contribute their time and energies to the Academy, and to engage with other health leaders outside the Academy in transforming America's health system by Enhancing the quality of health and nursing;Promoting healthy aging and human development across the life continuum; Reducing health disparities and inequalities; Shaping healthy behaviors and environments; Integrating mental and physical health; and Strengthening the nursing and health delivery system, nationally, and internationally.