Teaching: Dr. Simpson taught and coordinated the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program from 1985 until 2000. She currently teaches the Qualitative Research courses in the doctoral program. She is also an anthropologist and is an affiliate graduate faculty in the Department of Anthropology and in Latin American Studies. She is a fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is currently a member of the University of Florida Graduate Council, the Faculty Senate and the University of Florida Institutional Review Board 1. She has served on 20 completed doctoral committees and over 80 master's thesis and project committees in Nursing, Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Psychology and Food and Human Nutrition.
Research: Dr. Simpson speaks Spanish and is interested in International Health, having spent 9 years in South and Central America, and 1998-99 as a Fulbright Scholar in Jamaica. In 2003, she was selected for a 3-year Graduate Research Professorship. She completed a $160,000 contract with the Florida State Bureau of STD Prevention and Control to do an ethnographic assessment of access to STD services in several Florida counties. This contract also included a collaborative study involving CDC, and the Florida State Bureau of STDs looking at adolescents who had had at least two STDs within 24 months in Duval County. The purpose of this preliminary study using in-depth qualitative interviews was to determine what factors lead to these risky behaviors, so that better intervention programs could be developed. Two PhD theses were completed under this contract. Data analysis has resulted in several manuscripts and numerous national and international presentations. She has a second contract with the Florida State Bureau of STD Prevention and Control. “Evaluation of public & private STD services, adherence to national standards of care & professional roles in STD service” This contract includes several projects involving PhD students and an STD Prevention Fellow. The first project is, The Effects of a Change in Florida Law on Prenatal Testing Patterns and Vertical Transmission of STDs. Currenlty she is in the process of developing an Oral History project gathering stories from nurses who were in the Peace Corps in the early years.
Clinical practice area/expertise: Dr. Simpson is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and maintains a practice in the Marion County Health Department, Reddick Branch where she sees patients for antepartum, postpartum, STD and Family Planning care.
Education: Dr. Simpson received her BSN in Nursing at the University of Utah. She received her MS in Community Health Nursing at the University of California—San Francisco, a MA in Anthropology from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Florida.
Selected Publications:
Simpson, S.H. (Accepted for Publication) gender issues in the delivery of sexually transmitted disease services in three florida counties. University of the West Indies Journal of Nursing and Midwifery (In Press)
Duff, E. M. W., Simpson, S. H., Whittle, S. Bailey, E., Lopez, S., & Wilks, R. (2000). Impact on blood pressure control of a six-month intervention project. West Indian Medical Journal, 49(4), 307-311.
Simpson, S. H., Duff, E. M. W., Wilks, R., & Whittle, S. (2000). Profile of uncontrolled hypertensive patients attending the Specialist Hypertension Clinic, University Hospital of the West Indies. West Indian Medical Journal, 49(2), 118-122.
Research Reports:
Simpson, S.H., Hood, K.M. & Tovar, J.A. (April 2004). Access to Sexually Transmitted Disease Services in Broward County, Florida, A report for the Florida State Department of Health, Bureau of STD Prevention and Control, Contract #COA7V, College of Nursing, University of Florida.
Simpson, S.H., Hood, K.M. & Tovar, J.A. (May 2004). Access to sexually Transmitted Disease Services in St. Lucie County, Florida, A report to the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of STD Prevention and Control, Contract #COA7V, College of Nursing, University of Florida.
