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Joanne DeSanto Iennaco is an Assistant Professor in the Psychiatric-Mental
Health Specialty and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Chronic Disease
Epidemiology at Yale University's School of Public Health. Joanne currently
works with a Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine research team where
she studies the effect of psychosocial aspects of the workplace on health.
Her areas of research interest include Occupational Mental Health, Depression, Suicide, and the interface between mental and physical health. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Joanne was a tenured Associate Professor of Nursing at St. Joseph's College in Maine, where she was the program director for the BSN Opportunities program. In addition to teaching psychiatric mental health nursing and community health nursing, she was instrumental in developing the College's successful service-learning program.
As Project Director, she developed a college-wide service-learning infrastructure,
community partnerships and promoted service-learning integration by faculty. She was honored with a Faculty Service-learning Award in 1998
from the Maine Campus Compact and with St. Joseph's College Outstanding Faculty Award in 1999. Her clinical work is in adult and community mental health,
where she has worked as a Visiting Mental Health nurse, and in Adult Inpatient Psychiatric, Admissions, Emergency Department, and Day Treatment settings.
Joanne is also a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the American Public Health Association, the American Association for Suicidology,
and Sigma Theta Tau International.
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