Katelin Hoskins, PhD, MBE, CRNP
Assistant Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences
My research goals center on partnering with organizations, clinicians, families, and community members to equitably implement and scale up evidence-based interventions to prevent youth suicide. My focus is on firearm-related lethal means safety, particularly given steeply rising rates of firearm suicide among racially and ethnically minoritized youth. As a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner, clinically rooted observations of the landscape of mental health service delivery motivate this research agenda. Experiences caring for children and adolescents have amplified the importance of context (e.g., social, historical, and political) and shape the questions that I pursue as a nurse scientist.
Education
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
- MSN, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
- MBE, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- MSN, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- BSN, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Social Justice
To advance the justice-related elements of implementation science, I am leading a qualitative study that aims to better understand how to characterize, identify, and mitigate the negative unintended consequences of well-intentioned implementation research, with an emphasis on equity considerations (e.g., conceptualization of relational harms and subsequent ethical obligations to redress).
Teaching
My teaching experience ranges across hospital and university settings. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, I developed a didactic series on a wide range of content areas, including treatment of eating disorders, clinical decision-making around PRN medication, and psychopharmacology. I have also served as a preceptor for many new nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical students across my clinical roles. In university settings, I have guest lectured on special considerations for youth mental health, foundational concepts in implementation science, and implementation science and nursing innovation. My teaching philosophy is grounded in care, respect, and epistemic humility.
Research
My program of research is situated at the intersection of implementation science, psychiatric nursing, and health justice. As a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Implementation Research, I led a mixed method study that explored parents’ perspectives on the acceptability of an adapted firearm storage program. I also served as Project Director for a NIMH administrative supplement to a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial that examined equitable implementation of an evidence-based firearm storage program during a prospective pilot study. Currently, I am engaged in research funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention focused on leveraging implementation science to advance equity and prevent suicide in Black youth. Across my scholarship, I employ implementation science frameworks, mixed method study designs, qualitative analytic approaches, and behavioral economic tools.
Selected Career Highlights
- 2021 - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Postdoctoral Research Fellowship award (converted to Young Investigator award with faculty appointment)
- 2020 - Dorothy Mereness Award for excellence in scholarly writing
- 2017 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar
- 2012 - Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Xi Chapter
- 2007 - Cum Laude honors, University of Pennsylvania
- 2006-2007 - University of Pennsylvania Dean’s List