Clinical Assistant Professor
Department
Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
Undergraduate Studies Program
Contact
University of Michigan School of Nursing
400 North Ingalls Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482
Interests
Community-based participatory research
Community health needs assessments
Drivers (determinants) of health
Health justice
Global, rural health
Dr. Buckenmeyer’s expertise in population health provides the foundation for her leadership in teaching, scholarship, and practice. She has taught population health, global health, and public health nursing for over 15 years. As a methodologist, Dr. Buckenmeyer’s program of scholarship is aimed at strengthening communities through community-based participatory research and community capacity building. Through an integrated theoretical and methodological approach to community-based participatory research, her work seeks to mitigate upstream determinants of health to improve health justice in the communities where she serves. Her scholarship has contributed to reducing health disparities related to environmental determinants of health by improving cookstoves, enhancing safe water storage and access systems, training health promoters, and increasing access to health care. In practice, Dr. Buckenmeyer has extensive field experience in community health needs assessments as well as planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti, Tanzania, and the United States.
Teaching
Dr. Buckenmeyer’s Freirean-based philosophy of education echoes her expertise in participatory methods, which provides the foundation for her to use complementary processes in the classroom consistent with her scholarship. Through Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, faculty and students are engaged in education through the participatory process. Through the participatory educational process, teaching and learning are a symbiotic relationship that occurs simultaneously as the students learn from the faculty and the faculty learns from the students. Dr. Buckenmeyer has had the opportunity to apply her philosophy of education to teaching in traditional classrooms, clinical settings, and online in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in nursing, global health, public health, and interprofessional education. She has mentored over 30 undergraduate nursing and public health students in community-based participatory research in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Tanzania, and the United States. She has chaired more than 10 DNP projects through completion.
Affiliations/Service
Director of Interprofessional Community Health, U-M Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Treasurer, Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, 2026-present
Member, UMSN Curriculum Committee, 2026-present
Chair, Interprofessional Community Health Collaborative, 2025-present
Nurse Coach and Research Assistant, Healthy Lifetime, 2023-2025
Member, Faculty Practice Advisory Committee, 2023-2025
Member, UMSN Interprofessional Workgroup, 2023-present
Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2015-present
Member, American Public Health Association, International Health Section, Public Health Nursing Section (several service roles from 2018-present), and School Health and Wellness Section, 2006-present (several service roles from 2006-2022)
Member, Sigma, 1994-present (several service roles from 2004-2008, 2022-2024)
Notable Awards/Honors
Distinguished Scholar Fellow, National Academies of Practice, Public Health Academy
Award, Excellence in Teaching, Sigma Rho, 2026
Fellow, Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing (ELAN), Cohort 4, American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2022-2023
Certified in Public Health (CPH), 2020-present
Award, Dean’s Nursing Science Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
Award, College of Nursing Alumni Association, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008
Education
PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2007
MPH, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015
MSN, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 1999
BSN, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 1994
Publications Highlights
Antilla, J. M., DiClemente, L. M., Buckenmeyer, A. C., Villarreal, A., & Rek, N. (2026). Listening to unheard voices: Addressing systemic racism to improve maternity care for African American women after perinatal loss. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23050572
Buckenmeyer, A. C., Jantzi, K., Marriott, D., Antilla, J.M., Abad, V., Barnes, E., Blackmon, K., Burman, C., Crave, C., Roembke, C., Stathakis, T., Takalamingan, P.A., Wood, M.A., Goddard, E., & Hunt, B. (2026). Improving health outcomes in women who use traditional, open fire cookstoves by addressing cooking behaviors: A longitudinal cohort study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23, 647. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23050647
Antilla, J.M., Buckenmeyer, A.C., & DiClemente, L.M. (2026). The intersection of intimate partner violence, life stressors, and perinatal loss. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 55(4), S37-S38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2026.04.063
Antilla, J.M., DiClemente, L.M., & Buckenmeyer, A.C. (2026). Addressing systemic racism to improve maternity care for Black women after perinatal loss. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 55(4), S37-S38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2026.04.064
Firman, F., Irwan, A.M., & Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2025). Factors affecting patient length of stay in the emergency unit: A scoping review. International Emergency Nursing, 80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2025.101607
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2025). Epidemiologic designs: Using data to understand populations. In N. Schmidt, & J. Brown (Eds.), Evidence-based practice for nurses: Appraisal and application of research (6th Ed.). Jones & Bartlett.
Buckenmeyer, A. C. & Antilla, J. M. (2025). Artificial intelligence integration in nurse health coaching: Tailored strategies for community resource acquisition. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/01939459251327320
Arsyad, A. W., Irwan, A. M., Syam, Y., Changmai, S., & Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2025). Effectiveness of Tai Chi balance exercise on fall risk in older adults with cataracts in rural Indonesia: Original research. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2025.102110
Natalia, G. D., Irwan, A. M., & Buckenmeyer, A. (2025). Treatment adherence in patients with Tuberculosis: An integrative review. Journal of Education and Community Health, 12(4), 259-268. https://doi.org/10.34172/jech.3160
Antilla, J. M., Buckenmeyer, A. C., DiClemente, L. M., & Carlin, M. (2025). The intersection of intimate partner violence, life stressors, and perinatal loss: Implications for enhancing maternity care quality and public health practice. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22111613
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2022, Nov. 8). Increasing the public health nursing workforce through innovative student clinical experiences [Oral presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/517540
Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2022, Nov. 6). Achieving environmnetal justice through community-based participatory research [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, United States. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/513894
LaChappelle, B., Snarr, T., & Buckenmeyer, A. C. (2020, Mar. 17-20). Improving health equity in rural Costa Rice through community-based participatory research [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society of Public Health Educators, Atlanta, GA, United States. https://www.sophe.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SOPHE_2020ConferencePr…
Cory, A. C. & Shannon, R. A. (2019). The student's family. In J. Selekman (ed.), School nursing a comprehensive text (3rd ed.). F. A. Davis.
Cory, A. C., Cole, P., Eckelt, S., Geldmaker, B., Olmore, S., & Sawyer, B. (2019). Staff health. In D. Glassy, J. B. Kotch, P. E. Stubbs-Wynn, M. J. Krajicek, & B. U. Hamilton (Eds.), Caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards: Guidelines for out-of-home child care (4th ed.). American Academy of Pediatrics.