Jewel Scott graduated from DUSON last year with her PhD. This follows her earning her MSN degree from the School in 2006.

Recently, she received a 2020-21 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)’s Excellence in Advancing Nursing Science Award for her study "Social Contributors to the Cardiovascular Health of Young Adult Black Females." This award is granted to outstanding dissertations in a PhD in nursing program and was presented during the Doctoral Education Conference in January. The purpose of Scott’s dissertation was to fill a critical gap in Black women’s cardiovascular health research and refocus the field on earlier mitigation and strengths-based approaches.

In May, Scott was recognized as Graduate Student of the Year and Graduate & Professional "Willing and Abele" Student of the Year during the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture’s annual Abele Honors ceremony. This ceremony honors individuals for their excellence in scholarship and service to the university and to the community.

In 2016, Scott was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. In addition to financial support for her research, she was able to access mentoring and leadership development.

Scott has co-authored several articles with DUSON faculty, including pieces on whether sleep characteristics and adverse social exposures are associated with elevated blood pressure in young adult Black women and that summarize the genetic/genomic advances that inform precision health and the implications for cardiovascular disparities in African American adults. She’s also contributed to articles that address health equity during the pandemic, including the intersection of health equity and nurse practitioners and ways nursing can respond to the health disparities COVID has re-illuminated.

Scott was also a team member of the SER (Salud, Estrés y Resiliencia/Health, Stress and Resilience) Hispano Project, a research study that is analyzing the effects of acculturation stress and resilience on the health and wellbeing of local Latino immigrants.

In addition to her DUSON degrees, Scott earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a post master’s certificate in Public Health Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago. This is in addition to her Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a minor in Spanish from North Carolina State University.

Her career has consisted of positions at Piedmont Health Services, the Moncure Community Health Center, a school-based health center operated by Loyola University School of Nursing and Lawndale Christian Health Center located on Chicago’s Westside. Her efforts have taken her abroad, as well, to the Dominican Republic, where she served for 16 months as a missionary volunteer working with women and youth in school and community settings.