Martha B Baird, Ph.D., APRN, CTN-A

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in nursing, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona
MN, University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas
BSN, Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri

Publications: PubMed

Baird's program of research focuses on vulnerable populations, specifically immigrants and refugees.She is currently conducting a Community-based Collaborative Action Research (CBCAR) project with a Sudanese refugee community in the Kansas City metropolitan area to address social determinants related to their health outcomes. In 2009, she completed an interpretive ethnography titled "Resettlement Transition Experiences among Sudanese Refugee Women" at the University of Arizona in 2009.

Baird has traveled abroad to the Dominican Republic with student groups to conduct workshops with Haitian promotoras, to China to teach English as a second language and most recently to northern Uganda to set up educational and research opportunities. She's interested in combining student learning with international experiences.

Baird frequently presents on topics related to cultural competence to a variety of healthcare organizations and professionals. She is a member of the Transcultural Nursing Society, president elect of the Kansas City Networking Chapter of the Transcultural Nursing Society and a peer reviewer for the Journal of Transcultural Nursing.