Dianne Morrison-Beedy

Dianne Morrison-Beedy joined The Ohio State University in 2018 as Chief Talent and Global Strategy Officer and Centennial Professor of Nursing. She has been a three-time recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Award (2019 Fulbright Specialist in Oslo, Norway; 2017 Fulbright Scholar in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Fulbright Administrator Awardee in Paris, France in 2012). As Dean of the College of Nursing and Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health, University of South Florida from 2010-2016, she catapulted the college into the top 25 in NIH funding, first in the nation for military and veteran’s health and top graduate program in Florida. Known both as a scholar and a leader, Dr. Morrison-Beedy has received numerous awards for her work including election into the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame, the Audrey Hepburn Award for Outstanding Contributions to Well-Being of Children, March of Dimes 2021 Research Nurse of the Year, Florida Top 100 Nurses, Excellence in HIV Prevention Award from the Association for Nurses in AIDS Care, and the Excellence in Research award from the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and both the Florida and New York State Distinguished Researcher. She developed a sexual risk reduction intervention for adolescent girls, HIPTeens, recognized by the CDC and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an exemplary evidence-based intervention for both HIV/STI and teen pregnancy prevention. With over 250 publications and an award-winning research book, she has earned over $12 million in research funding and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She serves on several boards, holds Distinguished International Visiting Professorship Awards and was selected by the International Council of Nurses as a Global Nursing Leadership Institute Fellow in Geneva.

Intervention Research

• HIPTeens (the Health Improvement Project for Teens) recognized by the CDC as evidence-based intervention for HIV/STI prevention

• HIPTeens (the Health Improvement Project for Teens) recognized by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services  as evidence-based intervention for pregnancy prevention

• HIPTeens now being used as EBI in North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, UK, Canada

• Co-editor of award winning textbooks: 2020 Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company
  2013 - American Journal of Nursing’s 2012 Research Book of the Year Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. (2012) Designing, Conducting Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company

• Co-developer Intervention Research Workshop Founder/Owner HIP4Change, LLC - Health Improvement Programs for Behavioral Change

Books and Chapters

Melnyk, B.M., Morrison-Beedy, D. & Smith, R. (2020). Forming and Leading a High-Performance Team. In B.M. Melnyk & T. Raderstorf (Eds). Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare: A practical guide for success. (Chapter 6). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company

Crisafulli. C., Melnyk, B.M., Morrison-Beedy, D. & Happ, MB. (2020). Key Strategies for Moving From Research to Commercialization With Real-World Success Stories. In B.M. Melnyk & T. Raderstorf (Eds). Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare: A practical guide for success. (Chapter 24). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company

Sewell, B., Morrison-Beedy, D., Grove, L. & Westh, V. (2020). Leveraging Social Media and Marketing for Personal Branding and Business Influence. In B.M. Melnyk & T. Raderstorf (Eds). Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare: A practical guide for success. (Chapter 25). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company

Melnyk, B.M., Morrison-Beedy,D. & Cote-Arsenault, D. (2019). Generating evidence through quantitative and qualitative research. In B.M. Melnyk and E. Fineout-Overholt (Eds.). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare. A Guide to Best Practice (4th edition). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. (2019) Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019) Generating Evidence through Intervention Research versus Using Evidence in Evidence-based Practice/Quality Improvement, In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition; Chapter 1). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019). In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D eds. Setting the Stage for Intervention Research and Evidence-based Quality Improvement: The “So What,” “What Exists” and “What’s Next” Factors in Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition; Chapter 2), New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. Morrison-Beedy, D. & Moore, S. (2019) Nuts and Bolts of Designing Intervention Studies. In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition, Chapter 5); New York: Springer Publishing Company

Morrison-Beedy, D. & Melnyk, B.M. (2019) Measurement in Intervention Research. In

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition); Chapter 10). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Morrison-Beedy, D. and Visovsky, C. (2019) Participant Recruitment and Retention In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition; Chapter 14). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Rossiter, A.G., Ling, C. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019). Conducting interventions with active duty service members, veterans and their families. In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition); Chapter 18.3). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Nelson, L.E. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019) Considerations in conducting interventions in special settings: Public health settings. In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition; Chapter 18.4) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019) Writing Grants that Fund! In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition, Chapter 23) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Grove, L. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2019) Social Media Use in Intervention Research and Dissemination). In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding, A Practical Guide for Success. (2nd edition; Chapter 27). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M., Morrison-Beedy, D.  & Cole, R. (2016). Generating evidence through quantitative research. In B.M. Melnyk and E. Fineout-Overholt (Eds.). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare. A Guide to Best Practice (3rd edition). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Morrison-Beedy, D. & Melnyk, B.M. (2014). Theory underlying nursing intervention research. In Fitzpatrick, J. & McCarthy, G. (Eds.). Theories Guiding Nursing Research and practice: Making Nursing Knowledge Development Explicit. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. (2012) Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company
Note: Awarded American Journal of Nursing’s 2012 Research Book of the Year

Morrison-Beedy, D. & Melnyk, B.M. (2012) Measurement in Intervention Research. In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 8). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Nelson, L.E. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2012) Considerations in conducting interventions in special settings: Public health settings. In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 15) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2012) Setting the stage for intervention research: The so what factor. In Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 1) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2012) Nuts and Bolts of Designing Intervention Studies. In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 3) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company; Chapter 3.

Visovsky, C. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2012) Participant Recruitment and Retention In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 12) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. (2012) Writing Grants that Fund! In: Melnyk, B.M. & Morrison-Beedy, D. eds. Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding Intervention Research, A Practical Guide for Success. (Chapter 20) New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Morrison-Beedy, D. & Aten, M. (2004). HIV prevention interventions for adolescents in schools and community-based settings in B. Melnyk & E. Fineout (Eds.) Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Health Care: A Guide to Best Practice. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins: Philadelphia.