
- Phone: (585) 275-4520
- Office: HWH 2W123
- Office Hours:
By appointment
- Email: Natalie Leblanc
Natalie Leblanc, PhD, MPH, RN, BSN
- Associate Professor of Nursing with tenure
- Harriet J. Kitzman Endowed Fellow in Health Disparities
- Affiliated Faculty, Qualitative & Mixed Methods Research Center, URMC
Education
- Post-doctoral Fellow in HIV Prevention Science, 2016. School of Nursing, University of Rochester. Rochester, NY
- PhD, 2016. School of Nursing, University of Miami. Miami, FL
- B.S.N, 2012. College of Nursing, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL
- M.P.H, 2006. Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Atlanta, GA
- B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, 1998. Trinity College. Hartford, CT
Bio
Natalie Leblanc is an interdisciplinary nurse research scientist with a 20+ year career in public health, nursing, and health research. Leblanc investigates the ecological, cultural, and systemic factors (social/structural determinants of health) that influence health and wellness outcomes. As a former public health specialist, Leblanc is able to critically assess health issues from both public health and clinical perspectives - globally and domestically. As a nurse researcher, Leblanc seeks to address and investigate determinants of health disparity, assets within these factors that can be leveraged toward achieving health equity to inform intervention implementation.
Current Focus
Leblanc’s current research focuses on health care provider perspectives and praxis in sexual health promotion including HIV status neutral approaches and engagement in HIV care continuum. She also studies the context of vulnerability among key populations to inform services in globally.
Leblanc’s program of research pursues three lines of inquiry:
- health providers (e.g, physicians, nurses, social workers): perspectives, praxis and processes in sexual health promotion including in HIV prevention across the HIV care continuum, and HIV status ;
- health consumers: couple-centered HIV prevention and interpersonal factors (e.g. couples/partners, provider/patient) toward sexual health equity; use of digital intervention to promote HIV prevention and care; and negotiated safety/sexual agreements
- contextualize susceptibility to adverse sexual health outcomes (primarily HIV prevention, transmission and treatment) among marginalized populations (i.e. same-sex male couples, Black couples/partners, Black and Latine women, gender diverse persons), among non-heteronormative populations (i.e. those who engage in nonmonogamy, men of color who have sex with men, LGB-identified persons).
These lines of inquiry aim to:
- acknowledge the contribution of racism and anti-Black stigma, intersectional stigma and violence on sexual health inequities;
- discern assets in the health and community settings that can promote sexual health, wellness and well-being utilizing an HIV status neutral and implementation science frameworks.
Leblanc primarily uses multi-method qualitative/quantitative and mixed methods approaches to inquiry. Her focus is on qualitative description and interpretive techniques, content and thematic analytic approaches, qualitative dyadic data collection and analysis, and observational techniques; she has also led and collaborated on projects that utilize: 1) synthesis approaches (metasynthesis and meta-analysis); and 2) descriptive and advanced statistical techniques.
NIH
12/1/2023 - 11/30/2028
Role: Co-Investigator
PI: Abu-Ba'are, G.M.R.
NIH
9/1/2022 - 8/31/2027
Role: Co-Investigator
PI: Rand, C.
NIH/NIMH
9/4/2024 - 8/31/2027
Role: Principal Investigator
Yale University (CIRA)’s Community Partnership Kickstarter Research Award
11/2024 - 3/2027
Role: PI
PI: None
Gilead
1/1/2023 - 12/31/2024
Role: Principal Investigator