Namuun Clifford, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, has been selected as one of only 100 doctoral students across the United States and Canada to receive a prestigious $25,000 Scholar Award from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Sisterhood. She was nominated by Chapter JI of the PEO Sisterhood in Austin, Texas.
Clifford is a T32 Precision Health Fellow with more than 14 years of clinical experience, most recently serving as a family nurse practitioner providing telehealth-based primary care in multiple states. At the UT Austin School of Nursing, she supports innovative research as a graduate research assistant on an NIH-funded clinical trial led by her advisor, Kavita Radhakrishnan, PhD, MSEE, RN, FAAN, FAHA, associate dean for research. The trial explores digital tools to enhance heart failure self-care.
Radhakrishnan’s research focuses on precision digital health strategies to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease, with a particular focus on improving digital engagement among underserved populations. For her dissertation, Clifford is applying equity-centered frameworks and machine learning to real-world digital health data to create personalized, data-driven interventions that aim to reduce health disparities.
Established in 1991, the PEO Scholar Awards recognize outstanding women in doctoral programs who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and potential to make a meaningful impact on society.