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Brittney van de Water

Assistant Professor

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Brittney van de Water

Ph.D., RN, CPNP, FAAN

Contact

Maloney Hall聽362A

Telephone: 617-552-8718

Email: brittney.vandewater@bc.edu

Education

  • B.S., 艾可直播 College
  • M.S., 艾可直播 College
  • Ph.D., Duke University

Research Interests

Tuberculosis, TB/HIV, child health, sub-Saharan Africa, implementation science, human resources for health

Expertise

  • Public Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Child Health
  • Population Global Health

Clinical Practice

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, MA

Profile

Brittney van de Water, Ph.D., RN, CPNP, FAAN, is an assistant professor at the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. van de Water is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner and global health delivery researcher. She is also the associate director for pediatric nursing at Seed Global Health, where she supports nurse educators and partnerships with universities in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Sierra Leone. Dr. van de Water鈥檚 research focuses on optimizing implementation of TB and TB/HIV interventions in low-resource settings and uptake of evidence-based strategies at large. Her work centers on developing comprehensive TB care, leveraging routinely available data and cascade indicators to improve outcomes for high risk populations (i.e., children, pregnant women, people living with HIV) as well as building health professional capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.聽

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
  • Brilliant New Investigator Award, Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science
  • Rising Star Research Award, Eastern Nursing Research Society
  • Teaching and Research Excellence Award, 艾可直播 College Connell School of Nursing
  • Inaugural Affiliated Faculty, Schiller Institute, 艾可直播 College

Selected Publications

  • White, L., van de Water, B., & Dwyer, A.A. (2024). Beyond base pairs: Using simulation to build genomic competency in pediatric nurse practitioners. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, S0882-5963(24)00456-1. .
  • Ramirez, D., Brumwell, A., Rahman, M.M., Hossain, F., Kulkarni, S., Malik, A.A., Campbell, J.I., van de Water, B.J., Kamrul, M.K., Rahman, M.T., Hussain, H., Creswell, J., & Roy, T., & Brooks, M.B. (2024). Age- and sex-specific care cascades to detect gaps in the care of children with tuberculosis in Bangladesh: a cohort study. BMJ Global Health.
  • van de Water, B.J., McLean, M., Knutson, C., Srinivasan, R., & le Roux, K. (2024). Experiential Learning to Enhance Global Health Collaboration and Student Opportunity. Annals of Global Health, 90(1), 71, 1-7.
  • Ijaz, N., Nader, M., Ponticiello, M., Vance, A., van de Water, B.J., Funaro, M., Gonzalez-Dambrauskas, S., Wilson, P., Morrow, B., Davis, LL. (2024). Contextual factors influencing bubble continuous positive airway pressure implementation for paediatric respiratory distress in low-income and middle-income countries: a realist review. Lancet Global Health.
  • Linde, L., van Niekerk, L. B, leRoux, K., Wilson, M., Brooks, M.B. & van de Water, B.J. (2024). Application of a tuberculosis care cascade to a novel household contact intervention in rural South Africa.聽 Public Health Action, 14(4), 186-189.
  • Geyer, D., Flanagan, J.M., van de Water, B., McCarthy, S., & Vessey, J.A. (2024). A qualitative descriptive study exploring the systemic challenges of caring for children with medical complexity at home. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 39(1) 24-32.
  • *van de Water, B., Longacre, A., Hotchkiss, J., Sonnie, M., Mann, J., & Lemor, E. (2024). Implementing the organizational readiness for change (ORIC) survey during a novel midwifery preceptor program in Sierra Leone: Stakeholder results. BMC Health Services Research.
  • *Renning, K., Thomson, J., Hartman, M.A., Nindi-Nyondo, A., Mann, J., Chepuka, L., Mula, C., Wilson, G., Ramwell, C., & van de Water, B.J. (2024). Effectiveness of a pediatric critical care preceptor program: improved confidence and competency outcomes among a cohort of professional nurses in Blantyre, Malawi. Nurse Education Today, 142.
  • *Brooks, M.B., van de Water, B.J., Lecca, L., Huang, C., Trevisi, L., Contreras, C., Galea, J.T., Calderon, R., Yataco, R., Murray, M., & Becerra, M.B. (2024). Tuberculosis treatment loss to follow-up in children exposed at home: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Global Health, 14, 04194.
  • *Mann, J., Lemor, E., Fornah, F., Juana-Kamara, P., Fullah, M.A., Sonnie, M., & van de Water, B. (2024). Process mapping midwifery students鈥� clinical placement in Sierra Leone: Identifying facilitators and barriers. Annals of Global Health, 90(1), 1-12.
  • van de Water, B., Renning, K., Nindi-Nyondo, A., Sonnie, M., Longacre, A., Ewing, H., Fullah, M., Chepuka, L., & Mann, J. (2024). Development and initiation of a preceptor program to improve midwifery and nursing clinical education in sub-Saharan Africa: Protocol for a mixed methods study. BMC Nursing.
  • van de Water, B., Brooks, M., Matji, R., Ncanywa, B., Dikgale, F., Abuelezam, N., Moko, S., Nokwe, M., Mvusi, L., Mzileni, B., Loveday, M., & Gimbel, S. (2024). Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize tuberculosis (SAIA-TB) screening, treatment, and prevention in South Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial. Implementation Science Communications, 5(40).
  • van de Water, B., Abuelezam, A., Hotchkiss, J., Botha M., Ramangeola, L. (2023). The effect of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Eastern Cape, South Africa: A cohort study. Viruses, 15(11), 2242.
  • Dardas L.A., Al-leimon, O., Jaber, A.R., Saadeh, M., Al-leimon A., Al-Hurani, A., Jaber, A.R., Aziziye, O., Al-salieby, F., Ajiahalin, M., & van de Water, B. (2023). Flu shots unveiled: A global exploration of healthcare providers uptake, perceptions, and attitudes towards influenza vaccination. Vaccines, 11(12), 1760.
  • van de Water, B.J., Wilson, M., le Roux, K., Gaunt, B., Gimbel, S., & Ware, N.C. (2023). Healthcare worker perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing a tuberculosis preventive therapy program in rural South Africa: A content analysis using the consolidated framework for implementation research. Implementation Science Communications, 4, 107.
  • Maugans, C., Loveday, M., Hlangu, S., Waitt, C., van Schalkwyk, M., van de Water, B., Salazar-Austin, N., McKenna, L., Mathad, J.S., Kalk, E., Hurtado, R., Hughes, J., Eke, A.C., 聽Ahmed, S., & Furin, J. (2023). Best clinical practice for the care of pregnant people living with TB. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 27(5), 357-366.
  • Mann, J., Brooks, M.B., Kella, F., Euller, L., Adelman, S., Sonnie, M., & van de Water, B. (2023). The impact of clinical placement site, community clinic versus tertiary hospital, on midwifery students鈥� clinical learning experience in Sierra Leone: A cohort study. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 416.
  • Dardas, L.A., Xu, H., Franklin, M.S., Scott, J., Vance, A., van de Water, B., & Pan, W. (2023). Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication for treatment of adolescent depression: A network meta-analysis. Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 51(3), 230-245.
  • Sonnie, M., Kella F., Stern, A., Mannino, C.A., Adelman, S., Euller, L., Forbush, L., Mann, J., van de Water, B., Falahee, B., Sayeed, S., Ewing, H., & Kerry, V. (2023). A Sierra Leone 2021 midwifery clinical training needs Assessment: A call to action to augment clinical precepting. Annals of Global Health, 89(1), 1-12.
  • Renning, K.,听van de Water, B., Brandstetter, S., Kasitomu, C., Gowero, N., Simbota, M., & Majamanda, M. (2022). Training needs assessment for practicing pediatric critical care nurses in Malawi to inform the development of a specialized master鈥檚 education pathway: A cohort study.聽BMC Nursing,听21(1), 6.聽
  • Global Burden of Disease Long COVID Collaborators, Wulf Hanson, S., Abbafati, C., Aerts, J. G., Al-Aly, Z., Ashbaugh, C., Ballouz, T., Blyuss, O., Bobkova, P., Bonsel, G., Borzakova, S., Buonsenso, D., Butnaru, D., Carter, A., Chu, H., De Rose, C., Diab, M.M., Ekbom, E., 鈥� El Tantawi, M. (2022). Estimated global proportions of individuals with persistent fatigue, cognitive, and respiratory symptom clusters following symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.聽JAMA, 328(16), 1604鈥�1615.聽
  • Alene, K.A., Murray, M.B.,听van de Water, B.J., Becerra, M.C., Atalell, K.A., Nicol, M.P., & Clements, A.C.A. (2022). Treatment outcomes among pregnant patients with multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.聽JAMA Network Open,听5(6), e2216527.聽doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.16527 PMCID: PMC9187956
  • van de Water, B.J., Fulcher, I., Cilliers, S., Meyer, N., Wilson, M., Young, C., Gaunt, B., & le Roux, K. (2022). Association of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy with the occurrence of an unfavorable TB treatment outcome in a rural district hospital in Eastern Cape, South Africa: A retrospective cohort study.聽PLOS ONE,听17(4), e0266082.
  • van de Water B.J., Meyer, T.N., Wilson, M., Young, C., Gaunt, B., & le Roux, K.W. (2021). TB prevention cascade at a district hospital in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa.聽Public Health Action, 11(2), 97-100. PMCID: PMC8202619.
  • van de Water, B.J., Brooks, M.B., Huang, C.C., Trevisi, L., Lecca, L., Contreras, C., Galea, J., Calderon, R., Yataco, R., Murray, M., & Becerra, M.C. (2021). Tuberculosis clinical presentation and treatment outcomes in pregnancy: A prospective cohort study.聽BMC Infectious Diseases, 20, 286. PubMed PMID: 32948149.
  • van de Water, B.J., Vance, A.J., Ramangoaela, L., Botha, M., & Becerra, M. (2020). Prevention care cascade in people exposed to drug-resistant TB.聽International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 24(12), 1305-1306. PubMed PMID: 33317677.聽
  • Chaing, S.S., Brooks, M.B., Jenkins, H.E., Rubenstein, D., Seddon, J.A.,听van de Water, B.J., Lindeborg, M.M., Becerra, M.C., & Yuen, C.M. (2021) Concordance of drug-resistance profiles between persons with drug-resistant tuberculosis and their household contacts: A systematic review and meta-analysis.聽Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73(2), 250-263.聽DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa613 PMCID: PMC8427728

Select Grants

R01NR020866 NIH/NINR
Role: PI
SAIA-TB: Using the Systems Analysis Improvement Approach to prevent TB in rural South Africa ($2,765,164)

R01NR020482 NIH/NINR
Role: Co-I (MPI Davison, Calvo, Haneuse)
NIH/NINR, Leveraging community-based behavioral health to increase vaccine uptake in Latinx adults with mental illness (MI VACUNA) ($3,562,512)

Child Health Research Award, Charles H. Hood Foundation
Role: PI
Improving childhood tuberculosis treatment outcomes and post-TB lung functioning and quality of life in rural South Africa ($200,000)

Schiller Institute鈥檚 Grant for Research in Targeted and Emerging Areas (SI-RITEA)
Role: PI
PEDIatric Observational study to Understand post-TB Treatment Completion Morbidity including Environmental and Spatial links ($35,000)

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