Dr. Lynette M. Gibson, associate professor and director of research in Nursing, recently completed a fellowship at the Summer Nursing Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Center for Health Equity Research.

Gibson has been appointed to the Southern Region Health Equity Council which is one of 10 Regional Health Equity Councils in the nation. The councils are public-private partnerships whose mission is to mobilize a comprehensive, community-driven, and sustained approach to combating health disparities and to move the nation toward achieving health equity.