Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati
Dr. Samantha Boch is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and affiliate faculty at the James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. As a forensic nurse scientist with methodological expertise in learning health systems science, my overall career goal to improve the health and cross-sector service delivery for children of incarcerated parents and other justice-involved populations. My work has leveraged multidisciplinary teams emphasizing: (1) the linkages among parental incarceration, poor child health and health care delivery, (2) the social risk influences of health and health services use, and (3) the integration of chronic stress biomarker measurement in health equity research. Her post-doctoral training was completed in the Center of Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Abigail Wexner Research Institute in 2020. During graduate school, she worked as a corrections nurse, primarily at the Ohio Reformatory for Women and then as a quality assurance administrative consultant for Franklin (Prison) Medical Center. As a forensic nurse scientist, her program of research centers on the social determinants of health with particular emphasis on understanding and mitigating the consequences of mass incarceration on child and family health.
