Sarah Febres-Cordero

Each student brings a unique history of expertise that can educate the classroom community. If the teacher provides a safe, democratic environment that celebrates individual freedom, decency, kindness, and mutual consultation, students and the teacher will have many opportunities for growth. 

Dr. Febres-Cordero's research focuses on the occupational health and well-being of restaurant and service industry workers, drawing on more than two decades of firsthand experience in the restaurant industry. As a nurse scientist, she combines lived experience, clinical training, and community-engaged research methods to study occupational exposures and health risks in a workforce that is essential to daily life yet often underrepresented in research.

• Wagner, A., Sherman, A. D. F., Febres-Cordero, S., Grant, S., Nemeth, J., Szczech, M., Cimino, A., Lawrence, C., Kim, S., Chedekel, M., Hernandez, A., Goldberg, E., Klepper, M., Gupta, P., & Balthazar, M. S. (2026). Interpersonal Victimization and Post-Traumatic Stress Among Transgender and Gender Expansive People: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 23(5), 578. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23050578
• Swan, B.A., Giordano, N., Febres-Cordero, S., Fugate, K., & Steiger, L. (2026). Integrating artificial intelligence technology into simulation for pre- and post-licensure nursing students. Nursing Education Perspective, 47(2), 129-130.  doi:10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001397.
• Grant, K., Febres-Cordero, S., Josiah, N., & Johnson, K. B. (2026). Disparities in identification and treatment of opioid use disorder in primary care: A scoping review. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 60, 152003. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2025.152003
• Shanun, F., Smith, D. J., King, B., Vlachou, L., McGilvery, R., Zine, S., Henderson, H., Reichman, E., Cunningham, N., Zare, M., & Febres-Cordero, S. (2025). The Housing Instability Scale: Determining a cutoff score and its utility for contextualizing health outcomes in people who use drugs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(11), 1653. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22111653
• Crawford, K., Febres-Cordero, S., Brasher, S., Kaligotla, L., Phan, Q., Steiger, L., Chicas, R., Spaulding, A., & Swan, B.A. (2025). Evaluating the impact of a community health worker training program. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-025-01011-0
• Swan, B. A., Febres-Cordero, S., Steiger, L., Lisenby, A., Getz, T., Hudson, J., Cole, K., Branch, R., McDermott, C., Fugate, K., & Giordano, N. A. (2025). Feasibility and acceptability of incorporating artificial intelligence into simulation education. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 104, 101739. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2025.101739
• Febres-Cordero, S., Sherman, A. D. F., Kumsa, B., Klepper, M., Shanun, F., Grant, S., Duroseau, B., Leslie, S. L., Gupta, P., Béliveau, A., Landerfelt, P., Cohen, S., Lawrence, C., Linsenmeyer, W., Szczech, M., Balthazar, M. S., & Operario, D. (2025). A Scoping Review of Graphic Medicine Interventions to Promote Changes in Health Behavior, Health Service Engagement, and Health Outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(5), 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22050657
• Febres-Cordero, S., Smith, D. J., Leslie, S. L., Cohen, S., Landerfelt, P., Béliveau, A., Crook, J., Wulkan, A. Z., Kumsa, B., Shanun, F., & Giordano, N. A. (2025). Opioid Education and Naloxone Distribution by Occupation: A Scoping Review. Workplace Health and Safety, 21650799251326109. https://doi.org/10.1177/21650799251326109
• Swan BA, Giordano NA, Febres-Cordero S, Fugate K, Steiger L. (2025). Integrating Artificial Intelligence Technology Into Simulation for Pre- and Postlicensure Nursing Students. Nurse Education Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.Nep.0000000000001397
• Crook, J. I., Giordano, N. A., Mathias, J. E., Getz, T., & +Febres-Cordero, S. (2024). Evaluating Stigma Toward Individuals with Substance Use Disorder Among Prelicensure Nursing Students. Nurse Educator, 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001770. https://doi.org/10.1097/nne.0000000000001770
• Swan, B. A., Phan, Q., Crawford, K., Febres-Cordero, S., Kaligotla, L., Chicas, R., Giordano, N. A., Brasher, S., Chance-Revels, R., Spaulding, A., & Steiger, L. (2024). ARCHWAy: an innovative educational program advancing the public health workforce. Archives of Public Health, 82(1), 184. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-024-01422-1
• Giordano, N. A., Phan, Q., Kimble, L. P., Chicas, R., Brasher, S., Nicely, K. W., Sheridan, T., Starks, S., Ferranti, E., Moore, E., Clement, D., Weston, J. B., Febres-Cordero, S., Chance-Revels, R., Woods, E., Baker, H., Muirhead, L., Stapel-Wax, J., Jones, K. D., & Swan, B. A. (2024). The nurse-led equitable learning framework for training programs: A framework to grow, bolster and diversify the nursing and public health workforce. Journal of Professional Nursing, 53, 25-34. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2024.04.006
• ^Sherman, A. D. F., ^Balthazar, M. S., Kim, S., Carroll, L., Casseus, K., & +Febres-Cordero, S. (2024). Peer Facilitation: Accelerating individual, community, and societal change. Advances in Peer-Led Learning.
• Febres-Cordero S, Thompson LM, Chalfant OS, Sherman ADF, Winiker AK†, Kelly UA, Smith KM. (2024). Addressing Fear of Negative Consequences of Overdose Response: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Service Industry Workers Who Encounter an Opioid Overdose in an Urban Commercial District in Atlanta, Georgia. Workplace Health Safety. 2024 Jan 19:21650799231215806. doi: 10.1177/21650799231215806. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38243156.
• ^+Febres-Cordero, S., ^+Shasanmi-Ellis, R. O., & ^+Sherman, A. D. F. (2023). Labeled as “drug-seeking”: nurses use harm reduction philosophy to reflect on mending mutual distrust between healthcare workers and people who use drugs [Perspective]. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1277562
• ^+Sherman, A. D. F., ^+Febres-Cordero, S., Bonds Johnson, K., Clark, K. D., Klepper, M., Duroseau, B., Lin, Y., Zhang, W., Coleman, M., Prakash, D., Daniel, G. A., Chand, A. T., Kalu, U., Tarter, R., Allgood, S., Cohen, S., Kelly, U., & Balthazar, M. (2023). Intersectionality in nursing research: A scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 5, 100155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100155
• * ^Sherman, A. D. F., ^Balthazar, M., Zhang, W., Febres-Cordero, S., Clark, K. C., Klepper, M., Coleman, M., & 
  Kelly, U. (2023). Seeking Safety Intervention for Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorder: A meta-analysis. Brain and Behavior, 00, e2999. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2999
• Giordano, N. A., Febres-Cordero, S., Baker, H., Pfeiffer, K. M., Walsh, L. M., Gish, A., & Axson, S. A. (2023). Opioid-involved overdose trainings delivered using remote learning modalities. Nursing Open. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1615
• Febres-Cordero S, Smith, D.J., Wulkan, A.Z., Beliveau, A.J., Gish, A., Zine, S., Fugitt, L., Giordano, N.A. (2023). It’s what the community demands: Results of community-based emergency opioid overdose trainings. Public Health Nurs. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13151
• Febres-Cordero S, Smith DJ. (2022). Stayin’ Alive in Little 5: Application of Sentiment Analysis to Investigate Emotions of Service Industry Workers Responding to Drug Overdoses. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health;19(20):13103. PubMed PMID: doi:10.3390/ijerph192013103.
• Sherman, A. D. F., Balthazar, M., Klepper, M., Febres-Cordero, S., Valmeekanathan, A., Prakash, D., Cimino, A., Wharton, W., & Kelly, U.A. (2021). Approach and Avoidant Coping for Black Transgender Women who have Experienced Violence: A secondary Framework Analysis. Psychological Services.
• Sherman, A.D.F., Cimino, A. N., Mendoza, N.S., Noorani, T., +Febres-Cordero. S. (2020). Polyvictimization and substance use among sexual minority cisgender women. Substance Use and Misuse. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2020.1833928

• 2026    Selection to NIDA JCOIN Fellowship
• 2024    Selection to Science Gallery, 2024 exhibit: Resilient Earth
• 2023    Certificate of Excellence in Harm Reduction, Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition
• 2022    Selection to Science Gallery, 2022 exhibit: HOOKED