Karen T. D'Alonzo, PhD, RN, APNC Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Dr. Karen D’Alonzo is an associate professor in the School of Nursing, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She also is the director of the School’s Center for Community Health Partnerships (CCHP). The mission of the CCHP is to develop sustainable community-linked infrastructures to improve the health of communities. Using a community-based participatory research framework, Dr. D’Alonzo’s scholarship focuses on (a) biobehavioral approaches to promotion of physical activity and the prevention/management of obesity and obesogenic diseases among diverse groups of women and (b) the role of acculturation stress as a barrier to healthy lifestyles among immigrant women. Her research studies have made use of lay community health workers/promotoras de salud to deliver health promotion interventions in the immigrant Latino community. Dr. D’Alonzo graduated from Thomas Jefferson University Diploma School of Nursing in Philadelphia, PA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Rutgers University–Camden, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from Rutgers School of Nursing–Newark. She is certified by the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center) as an adult nurse practitioner and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.