Weaver Amongst ‘Phenomenal Leaders’ Celebrated at Generate Well being STL Occasion : SLU

10/25/2022

Nancy L. Weaver, Ph.D., will probably be honored with the Dr. Terry Leet Researcher Award on the annual Standing Up for Black Moms and Infants Awards Occasion.

The occasion, hosted by Generate Health STL is the premier maternal and little one well being awards occasion within the area. This yr Generate Well being is honoring 4 “phenomenal leaders,” together with Weaver, a professor of behavioral science and well being training within the Faculty for Public Well being and Social Justice.

The Dr. Terry Leet Researcher Award will probably be given to Weaver for making use of “communication sciences, analytics and public well being ideas to advertise constructive parenting of younger youngsters and adolescents,” in keeping with Generate Well being. Whether or not encouraging nurturing relationships between caregivers and youngsters or working with establishments and well being care techniques to undertake efficient applications, Weaver advances strength-based messages which can be simple to grasp and are extremely related to numerous audiences, in accordance to Generate Well being. 

The award is known as after Terry Leet, Ph.D., a professor at SLU earlier than his demise in 2009. Leet joined the college in 1998 as an assistant professor of group well being. Throughout his time at SLU he held appointments within the departments of pediatrics and obstetrics, gynecology and ladies’s well being and served as director of the division of epidemiology and chair of group well being.

Weaver’s analysis has been funded by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the Missouri Basis for Well being and different granting companies and has led to the widespread dissemination of many efficacious applications. Most just lately she launched Assist Over Silence for KIDS to handle public little one mistreatment.

Weaver is Co-director of the Community Engagement Core of the Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment Policy, Analysis and Coaching at Washington College and was the founding Director of SLU’s REACH Middle: Analysis and Fairness in Motion for Youngster Well being, a regional initiative that brings collectively educational and group companions to advance the well being of mothers, dads, households and kids. 

The annual Standing Up for Black Moms and Infants Awards Occasion will happen Thursday, Nov. 3, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in a hybrid format. This occasion is meant to convey collectively people and organizations who’re dedicated to bettering the well being of Black moms, birthing folks and infants within the St. Louis space. 

Generate Well being will honor three different native champions for his or her contributions to the sector of maternal and toddler well being. The nominees heart and work with communities which can be systemically deprived by racism. 

The opposite honorees are the late Cora Religion Walker, J.D., Judy Wilson-Griffin Maternal Well being Fairness Champion; LaKisha Redditt, – Alderman Gregory Carter Neighborhood Champion; and Nicole D. Carr, Dr. Corinne Walentik Supplier Champion.