Dee Baldwin, PhD, RN, FAAN

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Associate Professor
Georgia State University
Byrdine Lewis School of Nursing
MSC 2A0965
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4019
Phone: (404) 413-1198
Fax: (404) 413-1199
dbaldwin@gsu.edu

Dr. Baldwin, a champion of women's health for more than a decade, is the Governor's appointee to head up the newly created Office of Women's Health for the state of Georgia. Her selection to this role is a natural consequence of her many contributions to women's health and minority health through her many community-based projects that she has conducted over the years to provide health information to women and minorities. She has conducted multiple funded demonstration projects and research studies that have focused on early detection of breast and cervical cancer in minority populations through culturally appropriate educational programs and screening. She has received many awards in appreciation of her contributions to women's health, and was hailed as a local hero in the fight to eradicate breast cancer in 1998 by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Dr. Baldwin is a principal investigator for several studies on the promotion of breast health in older African American women. She has developed a model for describing low-income African American women's participation in breast and cervical cancer early detection and screening, and has established Project Breast Health, a culture-specific educational program designed to increase older African American women's use of cancer screening services.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.