Carol Ziegler, DNP, FNP-C, APHN-BC
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Global Health Research Interests: Community Health, Global Health Policy, Health Policy, Nursing, Nutrition, Public Health, Traditional Medicine
Countries: Kenya and Pakistan
Professor Ziegler is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, where she teaches in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She earned her MSN and DNP degrees from Vanderbilt in 2006 and 2012, respectively. Before becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), she worked as a Registered Dietitian in a small Appalachian community in East Tennessee. Additionally, she gained experience in a nutrition research lab at the University of Tennessee, where she investigated the anti-cancer properties of phytochemicals.
Her global health experience began in 2009 when she collaborated with traditional healers in Western Kenya. The initiatives she worked on aimed to protect traditional knowledge, enhance access to primary care health services, and develop market-based strategies to promote forest preservation.
Dr. Ziegler has ten years of clinical experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner in an underserved urban primary care clinic in Nashville, Tennessee, and she has been on the faculty at Vanderbilt since Spring 2013. In her role, she teaches in both the Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Midwifery programs, and coordinates global health initiatives for the School of Nursing. Her current practice interest lies in developing innovative strategies to improve health outcomes in underserved communities through culturally appropriate, community-based health initiatives.
Education
DNP and MSN, Vanderbilt University
MS, University of Tennessee