Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Dr. M. Katherine Hutchinson was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, where she served as the founding director of the Nursing Undergraduate Honors Program and faculty advisor for the Minorities in Nursing Organization. Dr. Hutchinson's program of research focuses on family, partner and social influences of HIV- and STI-related sexual risk behaviors among adolescent and young adult women and health disparities more broadly. She has served as principal investigator and co-investigator on several NIH-funded HIV prevention intervention trials and descriptive studies related to parent and partner influences of sexual risk behaviors. Dr. Hutchinson has published in many of the leading nursing and interdisciplinary journals and serves as a manuscript reviewer for Nursing Research, Research in Nursing and Health, Family Relations and Adolescent Health. Dr. Hutchinson was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008and is currently the principal investigator of a four-year, NIH-funded project (R01 NR010478) to develop and test a mother-daughter HIV risk reduction intervention in Kingston, Jamaica.
Research Interests:
Adolescent sexual risk behavior
Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV
Family influences of adolescent health and risk behaviors
Health behavior
Health disparities
Mandell, D., Eleey, C., Cederbaum, J., Noll, E., Hutchinson, M.K., Jemmott, L.S., & Blank, M. (2008). Excess sexual health risk among adolescents receiving special education services. Journal of School Health, 78, 382-388.
Jemmott, L.S., Jemmott, J.B., Hutchinson, M.K., Cederbaum, J., & O'Leary, A. (2008). Translating research into practice: STI/HIV risk-reduction interventions in clinical practice settings. JOGNN, 37, 137-145.
Cederbaum, J. A., Marcus, S. C., & Hutchinson, M.K. (2007). The influence of knowing someone with AIDS on youth HIV sexual risk behaviors. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth, 8(2), 31 - 44.
Hutchinson, M. K. & Wood, E. (2007). Reconceptualizing adolescent sexual risk using a parent-based expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 39 (2), 141-146.
Hutchinson, M.K., & Montgomery, A. (2007). Parent communication and sexual risk among African Americans. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 29, 691-707.
Hutchinson, M. K., Jemmott, L. S., Wood, E., Hewitt, H., Kahwa, E., Waldron, N., & Bonaparte, B. (2007). Culture-specific factors contributing to HIV risk among Jamaican adolescents. JANAC,18 (2), 35 - 47.
Hutchinson, M. K. (2007). PRIVATE The parent-teen sexual risk communication scale (PTSRC-III): Instrument development and psychometrics. Nursing Research, 56(1), 1 - 8.
Hutchinson, M. K., Davis, B., Jemmott, L., Gennaro, S., Tulman, L., Montgomery, A., & Servonsky, J. (2007). Promoting research partnerships to reduce health disparities among vulnerable populations: Sharing expertise between majority institutions and historically black universities. In J. Fitzpatrick, A. Nyamathi & D. Koniak Griffin (Eds.), Annual Review of Nursing Research: Vulnerable Populations, volume 25, 119 - 159.
Hutchinson, M. K., Thompson, A., & Cederbaum, J. A. (2006). Multi-system factors contributing to disparities in preventive health care among lesbian women. JOGNN, 35, 393-402.
Hutchinson, M. K., & Holtman, M. (2005). Analysis of count data using Poisson regression. Research in Nursing & Health, 28, 408-418.
Hutchinson, M. K. & Cederbaum, J. (2004). Family approaches to reducing adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors (pp. 67 - 72). In M. Heisler, G. Rust, and A. DuBois (Eds.), Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Morehouse School of Medicine Primary Care and Prevention Conference. Atlanta, GA: Morehouse School of Medicine.
