Janeane N. Anderson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
874 Union Avenue, Room 235
Memphis, TN 38163
901.448.2176
jande163@uthsc.edu
Janeane N. Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Population Health in the University of Tennessee (UT) Health Science Center’s College of Nursing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Anderson completed postdoctoral research fellowships in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and the College of Medicine at UT Health Science Center. She earned a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis in health communication from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Anderson’s research targets the relationship between patient-clinician communication practices and clinical and quality-of-life outcomes among racialized, marginalized patient populations. She uses qualitative and participatory action research methods to explore barriers and facilitators to patient-clinician communication about sexual health among Black women with breast cancer or vulvovaginal and chronic pelvic pain, or Black sexual minority men with elevated risk for contracting HIV, to identify actionable mechanisms for achieving patient health goals. Extramural funding from the National Cancer Institute has supported studies that explore patient-clinician communication, treatment adherence, and sexual health challenges among women with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Recent funding from the Washington D.C. Center for AIDS Research supported the development of a shared decision-making tool to improve the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black sexual minority men, and funding from the Tennessee Department of Health supported the training of clinicians in optimal communication practices for PrEP education and counseling.
Dr. Anderson’s professional activities also include developing faculty resources and university-level programming to address diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and objectives. Some of her more recent efforts include developing pedagogical resources for the UT Health Science Center faculty to implement inclusive learning strategies in clinical learning environments. She also conducted professional communication workshops for faculty from the College of Nursing and College of Medicine to improve critical consciousness and communication with diverse students, patients, and community members.Dr. Anderson is frequently invited to give lectures on systems of oppression, patient-centered communication practices, and sensitive and socially relevant topics within U.S. health care contexts for national and international organizations, including the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH), International Urogynecological Association (IUGA), National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), George Washington University School of Medicine, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.