Lucine Francis

PhD, BS, BA, RN

Lucine Francis is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and a steering committee faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions. Dr. Francis’ research focuses on health promotion and innovation in child-serving organizations, centering on childhood obesity prevention, childhood nutrition and active play, and school success. She uses diverse methodological approaches, including mixed methods, epidemiology, and community-based participatory methods, to inform the development, adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of programs for children and families to support the primary prevention of nutrition-related chronic diseases. Her work also aims to illuminate the role of and address the adverse social and structural determinants of healthy eating. Dr. Francis earned an AB in neuroscience from Smith College and a BS and PhD in nursing from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Francis obtained additional scientific training in mental health, parenting, and parent engagement as a Morton K. and Jane Blaustein postdoctoral fellow in mental health and psychiatric nursing.

JHU Center Affiliation:
Center for Cardiovascular & Chronic Care
Center for Equity in Child and Youth Health and Wellbeing
Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions

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Specialties and Expertise

Cardiovascular
Care Coordination
Community
Disparities
Health Policy
Mental Health
Obesity
Public Health
School Health
Social Determinants of Health

Publications

Francis L., Spaulding E., Bloom, I., Patel A., Perrin N. (in press) A Systematic Appraisal of the Functional, Information, and Engagement Quality and Aesthetics of Nutrition-Related Mobile Apps for Children and Adolescents, Public Health Nutrition, doi: 10.1017/S1368980023000526

Francis L., Perrin, N., Currerio F., Black MM., Allen J. (2022). Food Desert Status of Family Child Care Homes: Relationship to Young Children’s Food Quality, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6393; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116393

Francis, L., Patel, A., Hasan, A., Kylander, O., Williams, L., Levin, M.B, Sharps, P.W. (2022). Lessons Learned from Implementing SNAP-Ed in a School of Nursing/K-8 Partnership School amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Health Nursing, 39, 673– 676. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13031

Francis L., Perrin, N., Black MM., Allen J. (2022). Mealtime Environment and Feeding Practices in Urban Family Child Care Homes in the US. Childhood Obesity, 18(2), 102-111, https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2021.0042

Francis L., DePriest, K., Sharps, P., Wilson, P., Ling, C., Bowie, J., & Thorpe, R. J. (2021). A mixed-methods systematic review identifying, describing, and examining the effects of school-based care coordination programs in the US on all reported outcomes. Preventive Medicine, 153, [106850]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106850

Francis, L., DePriest, K., Wilson, M., Gross, D., (2018). Child Poverty, Toxic Stress, and Social Determinants of Health: Screening and Care Coordination. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 23, No. 3, Manuscript 2. doi: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol23No03Man02

Bussell K., Francis L., Armstrong B., Kilby S., Black MM., Hager, E. (2018). Examining Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies and Practices in Maryland’s Child Care Centers. Childhood Obesity 14(6):403-411. doi: 10.1089/chi.2018.0085

Francis L., Shodeinde L., Black MM., Allen J. (2018). Examining the obesogenic attributes of the Family Child Care Home (FCCH) environment: A Literature Review. Journal of Obesity, vol. June 10 2018. doi: 10.1155/2018/3490651

Petit Francis L., Spaulding E., Turkson-Ocran RA., Allen J. (2017). Randomized Trials of Nursing Interventions in Weight Management Research: A Systematic Review, Western Journal of Nursing Research, January,08,2017, doi: 10.1177/0193945916686962

2022 Healthy Eating Research (HER) Early Stage Investigator ESI-WG (Invited)

2020 Prevention Science Early Career Mentored Editorial Board Member

2020 SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

2019 Jonas Policy Scholar, American Academy of Nursing

2018 Fellow, Nurse Leadership Institute, University of Maryland School of Nursing

2018 Sue K. Donaldson Dissertation Award for an Outstanding PhD Dissertation at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

2018 Rising Star of Research and Scholarship-Sigma Theta Tau International Leadership Connection Conference (nominated by the Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing)

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