Jacquelyn Taylor

Jacquelyn Taylor (née Long) is the Helen F. Petit

Endowed Professor of Nursing at Columbia University Jacquelyn Yvette Taylor
School of Nursing (CUSON), where she is also the
Founding Executive Director of the Center for
Research on People of Color (CRPC). Dr. Taylor is
also the Founding Executive Director of the Kathleen
Hickey Endowed Lectureship on Cardiovascular Care,
the first endowed lectureship honoring a nurse scientist
at Columbia University. Additionally, Dr. Taylor holds
an administrative role as Senior Advisor to the Chair of
the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University
Medical Center. Dr. Taylor has been a trailblazer in
cardiovascular genomics research among minority 2018 NINR Director’s Lecture
populations, and diversity and inclusion efforts, having
Other names Jacquelyn Long
been the first black woman to earn tenure at CUSON,
New York University School of Nursing, and the Yale Alma mater Wayne State University, PhD,
School of Nursing. Dr. Taylor has been recognized for 2004
her contributions to the advancement of biomedical Washington University in St.
sciences, health care, and public health, having been Louis, Cardiovascular Genetic
elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. Epidemiology, 2009
Dr. Taylor is committed to mentoring and advancing Awards Presidential Early Career
health equity as she received the Columbia University Awards for Scientists and
Irving Medical Center 2021 Mentor of the Year Award Engineers, 2017
and the 2021 Friends of the National Institute of Scientific career
Nursing Research (FNINR) President's Award for her Fields
Genomics, Minority Health,
significant work in race, culture, and disparities in
Nursing Science
healthcare. Dr. Taylor has been PI of many studies
including, but not limited to, an R01 from National Institutions Columbia University School of
Nursing, 2020 – Present
Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)- The
New York University, 2018 –
Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and Psychological
2020
Factors on Blood Pressure (InterGEN), a Presidential
Yale School of Nursing, 2008 –
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
2017
(PECASE) award from President Obama in 2017, an
University of Michigan, 2005 –
MPI (multiple PI) on a P20 from NINR on Precision
2008
Health in Diverse Populations in 2018, an MPI on an
R25 on Research Opportunities in Cardiovascular
Diseases for Minority Undergrad and Grad Students Across the Health Sciences (RECV) in 2020, an MPI
of the TRANSFORM TL1 in 2021, and MPI on a NHLBI funded T32 on Postdoctoral Training in
Atherosclerosis in 2022. In 2023, she was awarded grants as MPI on an NHLBI funded R01 on 'The
Impact of a race-Based stress reduction intervention on well-being, inflammation, and DNA methylation
on Older African American Women at Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease' (RiSE) and a NIMHD funded
R01 'Identifying and reducing stigmatizing language in home healthcare' (ENGAGE), and MPI of a U54
from NICHD on NY-Community-Hospital-Academic Maternal Health Equity Partnerships (NY-
CHAMP), and PI of its training core. In addition to leading these grants, Dr. Taylor founded the Office of
Diversity and Inclusion at the Yale School of Nursing and served as its inaugural Associate Dean of
Diversity, and then went on to become the inaugural Endowed Chair of Health Equity and to develop and
direct the Meyers Biological Laboratory at NYU before joining Columbia University.

Education
She attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan for both her undergraduate and graduate
studies. There, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1999, her Master of Science in Nursing
in 2002, and her Doctor of Philosophy in 2004.[1] She first joined a laboratory during her undergraduate
studies, working under the mentorship of Joseph Dunbar, who was the chair of the department of
physiology.[2] Her research at the university evolved over the years to ultimately studying the genetics of
hypertension, focusing on multiple generations of African American women .[2]

Career and research

In 2005, Taylor became an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Michigan. In 2008, she
moved to Connecticut, where she became Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity and
Inclusion at Yale School of Nursing. While at Yale, she was Contact PI on a five-year study, receiving
funding support from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. The
study, known as the Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and Psychological Factors on Blood Pressure
(InterGEN) study, investigated the combined impact of genetic, environmental, and psychological
stressors on blood pressure, with a focus on members of the African American community.[3]

During her tenure, she also began to study the genomics of lead poisoning in response to the ongoing
Flint water crisis, developing a method to simultaneously measure lead levels and test genotypes of
children to identify genetic factors that increased risk of long-term damage.[4] As a graduate student at
Wayne State, she also investigated the interplay between gene variants and environmental exposure to
lead among children in Detroit.[5][4] She identified a correlation between children with a variant of the
gene that codes for arylsulfatase A (ASA) and an increased risk of neurodevelopmental damage as a result
of exposure to lead.

In 2018, Taylor joined the faculty at New York University, becoming the inaugural Vernice D. Ferguson
Professor in Health Equity where she remained until 2020.[6] There, she served as the co-Principal
Investigator on a five-year grant award, which established the NYU Meyers Center for Precision Health
in Diverse Populations.[7] The center would train nurse scientists to study chronic conditions and their
underlying biology, with the goal of reducing their burden on marginalized communities. In 2020, she
became the Helen F. Petit Professor of Nursing, Founder and Executive Director for the Center for
Research on People of Color at Columbia University School of Nursing.
Throughout her career, Taylor has also been an advocate for improving precision health in minority
populations — with a focus on health equity, social determinants of health, and cardiovascular genomics
.[8]

Awards and honors

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2011
Elected Fellow, American Heart Association, 2015
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2017[9]
Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2019[10]

Select publications
Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.; Wright, Michelle L.; Housman, David (2016-06-22). "Lead toxicity and
genetics in Flint, MI" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936820). npj Genomic
Medicine. 1: 16018–. doi:10.1038/npjgenmed.2016.18 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnpjgenm
ed.2016.18). PMC 4936820 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936820).
PMID 27398227 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27398227).
Crusto, Cindy A.; Barcelona de Mendoza, Veronica; Connell, Christian M.; Sun, Yan V.;
Taylor, Jacquelyn Y. (July 2016). "The Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and
Psychological Factors on Blood Pressure Study (InterGEN): Design and Methods for
Recruitment and Psychological Measures" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4
930011). Nursing Research. 65 (4): 331–338. doi:10.1097/NNR.0000000000000163 (http
s://doi.org/10.1097%2FNNR.0000000000000163). PMC 4930011 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
gov/pmc/articles/PMC4930011). PMID 27362519 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2736251
9).
Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.; Sun, Yan; Barcelona de Mendoza, Veronica; Ifatunji, Mosi; Rafferty,
Jane; Fox, Ervin R.; Musani, Solomon K.; Sims, Mario; Jackson, "James S. (October 2017).
"The Combined Effects of Genetic Risk and Perceived Discrimination on Blood Pressure
Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
ticles/PMC5671860). Medicine. 96 (43): e8369. doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000008369 (http
s://doi.org/10.1097%2FMD.0000000000008369). PMC 5671860 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
ov/pmc/articles/PMC5671860). PMID 29069027 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2906902
7).
Taylor, Jacquelyn Y.; Barcelona de Mendoza, Veronica (January 2018). "Improving -Omics-
Based Research and Precision Health in Minority Populations: Recommendations for Nurse
Scientists" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935491). Journal of Nursing
Scholarship. 50 (1): 11–19. doi:10.1111/jnu.12358 (https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fjnu.12358).
PMC 5935491 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935491). PMID 29140597
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29140597). S2CID 19079811 (https://api.semanticscholar.
org/CorpusID:19079811).

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