Amy Buckenmeyer, PhD, MPH, RN, CPH, CPNP-PC
University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482
Interests
- Community-based participatory research
- Community health needs assessments
- Drivers (determinants) of health
- Health justice
- Global, rural health
Dr. Buckenmeyer’s expertise in population health provides the foundation for her leadership in teaching, scholarship, and practice. She has taught population health, global health, and public health nursing for over 15 years. As a methodologist, Dr. Buckenmeyer’s program of scholarship is aimed at strengthening communities through community-based participatory research and community capacity building. Through an integrated theoretical and methodological approach to community-based participatory research, her work seeks to mitigate upstream determinants of health to improve health justice in the communities where she serves. Her scholarship has contributed to reducing health disparities related to environmental determinants of health by improving cookstoves, enhancing safe water storage and access systems, training health promoters, and increasing access to health care. In practice, Dr. Buckenmeyer has extensive field experience in community health needs assessments as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Tanzania, and the United States.
Teaching
Dr. Buckenmeyer’s Freirean-based philosophy of education echoes her expertise in participatory methods, which provides the foundation for her to use complementary processes in the classroom consistent with her scholarship. Through Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, faculty and students are engaged in education through the participatory process. Through the participatory educational process, teaching and learning are a symbiotic relationship that occurs simultaneously as the students learn from the faculty and the faculty learns from the students. Dr. Buckenmeyer has had the opportunity to apply her philosophy of education to teaching in traditional classrooms, clinical settings, and online in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in nursing, global health, public health, and interprofessional education. She has mentored over 30 undergraduate nursing and public health students in community-based participatory research in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Tanzania, and the United States. She has chaired more than 10 DNP projects through completion.
Affiliations / Service
- Nurse Coach and Research Assistant, Healthy Lifetime, 2023-present
- Member, Interprofessional Community Health Collaborative, 2023-present
- Member, Faculty Practice Advisory Committee, 2023-present
- Member, UMSN Interprofessional Workgroup, 2023-present
- Member, Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, 2022-present
- Member, Society of Public Health Educators, 2019-present
- Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2015-present
- Member, American Public Health Association, International Health Section, Public Health Nursing Section (several service roles from 2018-present), and School Health and Wellness Section, 2006-present (several service roles from 2006-2022)
- Member, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1998-present
- Member, Sigma, 1994-present (several service roles from 2004-2008, 2022-present)
Notable Awards / Honors
- Fellow, Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing (ELAN), Cohort 4, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2022-2023
- Certified in Public Health (CPH), 2020-present
- Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care (CPNP-PC), 1999-2018, 2020-present
- Award, Distinguished Teaching, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Valparaiso University, 2011 & 2017
- Award, Dean’s Nursing Science Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
- Award, College of Nursing Alumni Association, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
Education
- PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2007
- MPH, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015
- MSN, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 1999
- BSN, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 1994
Publication Highlights
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2022, Nov. 8). Increasing the public health nursing workforce through innovative student clinical experiences [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/517540
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2022, Nov. 6). Achieving environmnetal justice through community-based participatory reseach [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/513894
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2021). Epidemiological designs: Using data to understand populations. In N. Schmidt, & J. Brown (Eds.), Evidence-based practice for nurses: Appraisal and application of research (5th ed., pp. 223-252). Jones & Bartlett.
LaChappelle, B., Snarr, T., & Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2020, Mar. 17-20). Improving health equity in rural Costa Rice through community-based participatory research [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society of Public Health Educators, Atlanta, GA, United States. https://www.sophe.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SOPHE_2020ConferenceProgram_web_final.pdf
Cory, A. C. & Shannon, R. A. (2019). The student's family. In J. Selekman (ed.), School nursing a comprehensive text (3rd ed.). F. A. Davis.
Cory, A. C., Cole, P., Eckelt, S., Geldmaker, B., Olmore, S., & Sawyer, B. (2019). Staff health. In D. Glassy, J. B. Kotch, P. E. Stubbs-Wynn, M. J. Krajicek, & B. U. Hamilton (Eds.), Caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards: Guidelines for out-of-home child care (4th ed.). American Academy of Pediatrics.
Cory, A. C. (2018, Nov. 13). Changing the climate of health through education and empowerment of nurses: Using community-based participatory research [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA, United States. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/423107
Cory, A. C., Snyder, P., Wingstrom, C., Crave, C., & Lundy, C. (2013, Nov. 2-6). Beyond the volcanoes: A community partnership for improved cookstoves in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States.
Cory, A. C., Hagenberger, M., Simonpietri, C., & Guisfredi, E. (2013, Nov. 2-6). Partners in health: Improving water resources in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States.
Cory, A. C. (2011, Oct.). Advocating for school health programs through community-based participatory action [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American School Health Association, Louisville, KY, United States.
Cory, A. C., Thomas, K., Kost, K., Popa, B., & Erdmann, T. (2010, Nov. 6-10). Beyond the volcanoes: Community assessment and action to improve health equity in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO, United States.
Cory, A. C., Thomas, K., Kost, K., Popa, B., & Erdmann, T. (2010, Nov. 6-10). Beyond the volcanoes: Community education and action to improve health equity in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO, United States.
Cory, A. C., Wilson, K., & Rosen, B. (2010, Oct.). Beyond the volcanoes: A coordinated school health program in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American School Health Association, Kansas City, MO, United States.
Cory, A. C., Schmerber, R., Erdmann, T., Kost, K., & Thomas, K. (2009, Nov. 7-11). Beyond the volcanoes: A community health assessment in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. United States.
Cory, A. C., Thomas, K., Erdmann, T., Kost, K., & Schmerber, R. (2009, Nov. 7-11). Beyond the volcanoes: Planning for community action to improve health in rural Nicaragua [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. United States.
