Aging Scholar
About Dr. Nkimbeng
Dr. Manka Nkimbeng is a nurse scientist and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and an Affiliate assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Before that, she was a Robert L. Kane Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. in nursing from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, her MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health, and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She works with communities to develop and test culturally appropriate interventions that can be translated into health policies and clinical practice to improve health and eliminate health inequities for older adults.
Honors & Awards
2022 Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award; National Institute on Aging (NIA) Renewal
2022 Faculty Scholar, Health Equity Team (HET) National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory
2021 Faculty Scholar, Health Equity Team (HET) National Institute on Aging (NIA) IMbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory
2020 Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award; National Institute on Aging (NIA)
2019 Director of Research; Crown Campaign Collaboration Durham, NC
2019 Best Abstract; International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN) Biennial conference. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2018 Isabel Hampton Robb Memorial Award; Nurses Educational Funds Inc.
2017 Nurse Faculty for the Future Fellowship Program; JHU School of Nursing.
2017 Gertrude T. Hodges Scholarship; JHU School of Nursing Black Student Nurses Association.
2016 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar
2016 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society
2012 All-star Youth; Mankon Cultural and Development Association, America
2011 Academic Excellence and Community Service; Mankon Cultural and Development Association, America
2011 Outstanding Volunteer Service, African Cultural Association, Lowell, MA
2010 Merit Scholarship; Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2008 Magna cum Laude; University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2006 Elizabeth Battey Marchese Memorial Scholarship; University of Massachusetts Amherst
2004 Eliot Presbyterian Church Scholarship; Eliot Church, Lowell, MA