Associate Professor
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LaShaune Patrice Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. LaShaune Johnson is an associate professor of public health in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University. The classes she teaches include Community-Based Participatory Research, Social and Behavioral Health and Health Communication and Informatics. She utilizes the following quote to describe her teaching philosophy:
“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Dr. Johnson received her bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, in Wellesley, MA with a double major in Sociology and Medieval/Renaissance Studies. She earned her PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara in Sociology, with doctoral certificates in Human Development and Feminist Studies. She has also completed two postdoctoral fellowships. One from the University of Connecticut Health Center, Ethel Donaghue Center for Translation Research into Practice and Policy (TRIPP) Center and the other from the University of Missouri, Columbia, School of Health Professions
Dr. Johnson’s research interests include the African American experience across the breast cancer continuum, faith-based maternal and child health education, culturally-responsive program evaluation and community-based mental health interventions
In addition to academia, Dr. Johnson is passionate about travel, movies and supporting the Boston Red Sox and Golden State Warriors!
Research Focus
Adolescent obesity; community-based participatory research; Muslim child and maternal health; online student learning and collaboration; impact of/to family systems and the use of cancer genetic testing; health services research about weight loss surgeryDepartment
Clinical Research and Public Health
Position
Associate Professor
Books
- Rosales Martin Renzo, Research as accompaniment 2024
- Research as Accompaniment
Johnson LaShaune P., Introduction [Book Chapter] 2024 - Research as Accompaniment
Johnson LaShaune P., Listening Is Fertile, 'Service' Is Thorny [Book Chapter] 2024 - Facilitating Visual Socialities
Johnson LaShaune, For Us, with Us: Creative Expressions as Means to Collectively Elevate Minoritized Experiences, Knowledge, and Wisdom [Book Chapter] 2023 - Social Capital and Community Well-Being : The Serve Here Initiative
Johnson LaShaune P., What Is Social Capital? [Book Chapter] 2016
Articles
- Johnson LaShaune P., Devil on My Shoulder 2018
Publications
- Social science & medicine (1982)
Thompson Tess, “We need a little strength as well”: Examining the social context of informal caregivers for Black women with breast cancer, p. 116528 2023 - New directions for evaluation
Felt Dylan, Imagining the future of LGBTQ+ evaluation: New(er) directions and what comes next
2022:175, p. 171 - 191 2022 - Health Education and Behavior
Fakunle David O., What Anansi Did for Us
48:3, p. 352 - 360 2021 - Social Science and Medicine
Thompson Tess, The support that partners or caregivers provide sexual minority women who have cancer
261 2020 - Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Asigbee Fiona M., The Association Between School Gardens and Physical Activity: A Way to Increase Youth Physical Activity
51:6S, p. 787 - 787 2019 - Supportive Care in Cancer
McElroy Jane A., Breaking bad news of a breast cancer diagnosis over the telephone
27:3, p. 943 - 950 2019 - Clinical obesity
Johnson L. P., Pre-surgical, surgical and post-surgical experiences of weight loss surgery patients
8:4, p. 265 - 274 2018 - Journal of Educational Computing Research
Liu Ying Hsiu, Exploration of Factors in the Early Collaboration Phase Affecting Virtual Groups’ Overall Collaborative Learning Experiences
56:4, p. 485 - 512 2018 - Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Asigbee Fiona M., Winning off the Field
49:5S, p. 1089 2017 - Health behavior and policy review
Johnson LaShaune P., Giving and Taking Away: The Role of Recess Staff in Youth Physical Activity
3:6, p. 557 - 567 2016 - Computers and Education
Kwon Kyungbin, Group regulation and social-emotional interactions observed in computer supported collaborative learning
78, p. 185 - 200 2014 - Women, gender, and families of color
Harvey Idethia Shevon, Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
1:1, p. 59 - 84 2013 - Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
Teti Michelle, Photovoice as a community-based participatory research method among women living with HIV/AIDS
7:4, p. 34 - 43 2012
Presentations
- Stories are Science, Stories are Policies: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities when Working with Health Equity Storytellers -0001