Kia Skrine Jeffers

Dr. Kia Skrine Jeffers (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Joe C. Wen School of Nursing. Her research addresses mental health promotion and cardiometabolic disease prevention among Black women across their life courses through participatory, arts-based, and mixed methods approaches. Dr. Skrine Jeffers’ innovative use of theatre for data collection and research dissemination informed the development of We See You Sis, a therapy-informed virtual mental health intervention. She and her community partners have advanced this work from community engagement through feasibility testing, and they are currently evaluating implementation and therapeutic outcomes. Dr. Skrine is also a practicing community health nurse in a safety net health program in Los Angeles and leads the Public Health Nursing didactic and clinical course in the BS program.