Faculty

Associate Professor Jean Davis’ passion for community health promotion grew from listening to her aunt and her mother, both nurses, discuss and solve community health challenges when she was a child. Davis channels that passion into implementation science research using coaching, wearable technology and artificial intelligence (AI) for physical activity support, promotion and habit formation to improve health and patient outcomes. She promotes generative and co-creation uses of AI in the courses she leads, and her clinical research trials focus on maternal health, cardiovascular conditions and diabetes. Davis shares her expertise internationally as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy fellow and mentor. In addition, she promotes health and well-being as a Duke Health-trained Health & Well-Being Coach, and volunteers both nationally and internationally as a family nurse practitioner and population health clinical nurse specialist.

Education

• PhD, University of Central Florida
• DNP, Florida Atlantic University
• Family Nurse Practitioner Post-master’s Certificate, Barry University
• EdD in Higher Education, Nova Southeastern University
• MS, Nursing in Community/Population Health CNS, Rutgers University
• BS, Nursing, Rutgers University
• Health and Well-being Coach, Duke Health

Selected Editorial Activities

• Reviewer, MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
• Reviewer, The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care
• Reviewer, Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research
• Reviewer, JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing

Selected Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Nurse Practitioner Educator Award, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, 2025
• Distinguished Fellow, National Academies of Practice in Nursing, 2024
• Steven P. Hooker Research Award Finalist, American Public Health Association, 2024
• Noble Knight Nurse Award, Service Category, UCF College of Nursing, 2020
• Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholar, Jonas Foundation, 2016-2019

Selected Professional Activities

• Faculty Fellow, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy
• Governing Councilor, American Public Health Association, Physical Activity Section
• Immediate Past Chair Community and Public Health and & Health Promotion Research Interest & Implementation Group, Southern Nursing research Society
• Chair Ethics Special Interest Group, Florida Nurses Association
• Accreditation Site Visitor, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education