PhD student Dorothy Addo-Mensah awarded 2024 NLN Nursing Education Scholarship

The UNC School of Nursing is pleased to announce that Dorothy Addo-Mensah, a third-year PhD student, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2024 National League for Nursing (NLN) Nursing Education Scholarship Award. Dorothy will be recognized at this year’s NLN Educational Summit in San Antonio, Texas.

The National League for Nursing is renowned for providing excellent training, mentoring opportunities, research grants, and educational scholarships to approximately 45,000 individuals and 1,000 nursing institutional members. The NLN Educational Scholarship Award supports nurse educators from diverse backgrounds who have the potential to pursue a nurse educator role after completing an advanced degree.

“Dorothy came to our PhD program after serving as a nursing educator in Ghana, West Africa. She is passionate about addressing cardiovascular health inequities, and she is dedicated to continuing her career to help educate future nurses,” said her advisor, Cheryl Woods Giscombe, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, FAAN. “We are so grateful to the NLN for this award and recognition of Dorothy’s excellence and promise as a nursing scholar and educator.”

Dorothy’s research strongly aligns with NLN’s core values of caring, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and excellence. She believes that this educational scholarship will help her navigate the path of becoming a thoughtful, well-trained mentor to guide both undergraduate and graduate students.

Dorothy’s dissertation focuses on examining the characteristics of participants associated with the successful completion of a diabetes risk reduction program for African Americans with prediabetes. Her work has significant implications for developing tailored behavioral lifestyle interventions and educational tools to improve health outcomes for this community.

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