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Jasmine Travers is a second year pre-doctoral student at Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy. Prior to Columbia, she earned her BSN from Adelphi University, MSN from Stony Brook University and holds her board certification in Adult Gerontological Health by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Her research interest lies in health disparities among minority populations and nursing workforce diversity. Ms. Travers worked as a critical care staff nurse, and clinical nurse educator. Currently, she serves as an Adjunct Faculty member for the School of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi University and plans to continue in academia as a nurse scientist and educator upon completion of her degree. For the 2014-2016 years, Ms. Travers has received funding support from a NINR NIH Diversity Research Supplement aimed to increase diversity in health-related research. Under this supplement and the guidance of her mentoring team, Ms. Travers will examine relationships between diversity in sociodemographics amongst nursing attendants and the provision of quality nursing home care as well as health disparities in long-term care setting residents related to infection control structures and processes in preventing HAIs in nursing homes. At the start of the 2014 academic year, Ms. Travers will also serve as the student representative to Columbia University’s School of Nursing PhD Faculty Committee.