Rebecca Schnall

Rebecca Schnall is the Mary Dickey Lindsay Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (in Nursing) and Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia University School of Nursing. She serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and leads a program in consumer health informatics, focusing on HIV prevention and health promotion for underserved communities through mobile health (mHealth) technologies.

Education:

• BA in History, Northwestern University (2002)
• MPH in Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago (2004)
• BSN, Pace University (2006)
• PhD in Nursing Informatics, Columbia University (2009)

Her research emphasizes user-centered design of health technologies, addressing health disparities and patient engagement through mixed-methods studies. She has developed scales like Health-ITUES and mDiHERS to evaluate mHealth usability and health literacy equity.

Recent publications highlight her work in digital health (2024), serious gaming for HIV prevention (2023), and older adults with HIV (2022). Her studies span health informatics, clinical decision support, and NLP for clinical research.

Scientific Awards:

• 2025 Virginia K. Saba Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
• 2022 Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics
• 2021 FACMI
• 2020 Welch/Woerner Path-Paver Award
• 2018 Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
• Multiple Dean’s and Columbia University awards

She mentors emerging nursing researchers and collaborates with institutions like CTSA Clinical Research Core and NIH. Her work has been cited over 180 times, with media coverage in Politico and Nurse.com.