Directory Entry For: Luz Huntington-Moskos
Biography
Luz Huntington-Moskos, PhD, RN, CPN, FAAN is a tenured Associate Professor and the Shirley B. Powers Endowed Chair in Nursing Systems Research at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. She directs the Community Engagement Core for the NIH-funded Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences (CIEHS; P30 ES030283, PI: States, C.). Dr. Huntington-Moskos is a nurse-scientist with more than two decades of clinical, research, teaching, and community-engaged scholarship experience.
Her research focuses on environmental health, asthma and chronic disease self-management, health equity, and community-engaged approaches to reducing harmful environmental exposures. She is nationally recognized for advancing the science and practice of research report-back; she shares individual and community-level environmental exposure data with participants to promote environmental health literacy and behavior change. Her work frequently centers on youth, families, and communities disproportionately affected by environmental exposures, particularly in rural and under-resourced settings.
Dr. Huntington-Moskos has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects, including R21 (R21 ESO38074, MPI: Smith/Huntington-Moskos) and P30 awards from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and she Is an alum of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators (2021-2024). Her scholarship is widely published in high-impact journals such as Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, JMIR, Journal of Adolescent Health, Nursing Outlook, Public Health Nursing, Journal of Appalachian Health, and Preventing Chronic Disease.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Dr. Huntington-Moskos is deeply committed to mentorship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and translating environmental health science into action through practice and community partnerships. She is bilingual in Spanish and English and brings a global and equity-centered perspective shaped by her early service as a Peace Corps science educator in Malawi.
Research Interests
Adolescent Environmental Health
Report-back of Research Results (RBRR)
Community-engaged Research
Indoor Air Quality
Asthma
Degrees and Certifications
University of Alabama at Birmingham