Jasmine Travers Altizer

Jasmine Travers Altizer, PhD, MHS, RN, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She leads a program of research focused on improving care and outcomes for underserved older adults and those who care for them, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her current work examines disparities in access to and use of long-term care services, including home-based care, community programs, nursing homes, and assisted living.

Prof. Travers Altizer is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded R01 examining the relationship between staffing patterns and outcomes for residents living with dementia. She also holds a five-year Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leader K76 Award from the National Institute on Aging. In this mixed-methods study, she is developing and testing a novel survey instrument designed to identify unmet needs that disproportionately drive avoidable nursing home placements.

Travers Altizer served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, which released the landmark report The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality in April 2022. She has also delivered two congressional testimonies on the state of long-term care and its workforce.

Travers Altizer has published widely on topics including aging, long-term care, health disparities, workforce issues, vaccinations, and infections. She regularly presents her work at regional and national health services research, gerontological, nursing, and public health conferences.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU Meyers, Travers Altizer completed postdoctoral training through the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University and a T32-funded fellowship at the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

PhD, Columbia University School of Nursing

MHS, Yale University

MSN in Adult-Gerontological Health, Stony Brook University

BSN, Adelphi University

Aging

Health Policy

Long-Term Care

Workforce

Academy Health

American Academy of Nursing

American Geriatrics Society

Eastern Nursing Research Society

Gerontological Society of America

New York Academy of Medicine

Dean’s Excellence in Research Award, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing (2024)

New York Academy of Medicine Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine (2024)

American Academy of Nursing Fellow, American Academy of Nursing (2024)

Nurse Researcher of the Year, Greater New York City Black Nurses Association (2024)

Health in Aging Foundation New Investigator Award, American Geriatrics Society (2022)

Rising Star Research Award, Eastern Nursing Research Society (2022)

Early Career Alumni Award: Emerging Nurse Leader, Columbia University (2020)

Scholar, National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale University (2020)

Committee Member, Committee on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020)

Jonas Policy Scholar, American Academy of Nursing, Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare (2019)

Douglas Holmes Emerging Scholar Paper Award, Gerontological Society of America (2018)

Awardee, 10 Under 10 Young Alumni Recognition, Adelphi University (2018)

Associate Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania (2018)

Dean’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost Office (2018)

Pre-Dissertation Student Research Award, The Behavioral & Social Sciences Section of The Gerontological Society of America (2016)

Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare (2016)

EHealth interventions for HIV prevention in high-risk men who have sex with men : A systematic review

Schnall, R., Altizer, J. T., Rojas, M., & Carballo-Diéguez, A. (2014). In Journal of medical Internet research (Vols. 16, Issues 5, p. e134). 10.2196/jmir.3393

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Background: While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rate has remained steady in most groups, the overall incidence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been steadily increasing in the United States. eHealth is a platform for health behavior change interventions and provides new opportunities for the delivery of HIV prevention messages. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the use of eHealth interventions for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, OVID, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and Google for articles and grey literature reporting the original results of any studies related to HIV prevention in MSM and developed a standard data collection form to extract information on study characteristics and outcome data. Results: In total, 13 articles met the inclusion criteria, of which five articles targeted HIV testing behaviors and eight focused on decreasing HIV risk behaviors. Interventions included Web-based education modules, text messaging (SMS, short message service), chat rooms, and social networking. The methodological quality of articles ranged from 49.4-94.6%. Wide variation in the interventions meant synthesis of the results using meta-analysis would not be appropriate. Conclusions: This review shows evidence that eHealth for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM has the potential to be effective in the short term for reducing HIV risk behaviors and increasing testing rates. Given that many of these studies were short term and had other limitations, but showed strong preliminary evidence of improving outcomes, additional work needs to rigorously assess the use of eHealth strategies for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM.

Use of Design Science for Informing the Development of a Mobile App for Persons Living with HIV

Schnall, R., Rojas, M., Altizer, J. T., Brown, W., & Bakken, S. (2014). In AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (Vols. 2014, pp. 1037-1045).

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Mobile health (mHealth) technology presents opportunities to enhance chronic illness management, which is especially relevant for persons living with HIV (PLWH). Since mHealth technology comprises evolving and adaptable hardware and software, it provides many challenging design problems. To address this challenge, our methods were guided by the Information System Research (ISR) framework. This paper focuses on the Design Cycle of the ISR framework in which we used user-centered distributed information design methods and participatory action research methods to inform the design of a mobile application (app) for PLWH. In the first design session, participants (N=5) identified features that are optimal for meeting the treatment and management needs of PLWH. In the second design session, participants (N=6) were presented with findings from the first design session and pictures of existing apps. Findings from the Design Cycle will be evaluated with usability inspection methods. Using a systematic approach has the potential to improve mHealth functionality and use and subsequent impact.