About
Adaeze Anyanwu was born in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 7 with her younger brother. She is married with two children. Anyanwu received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs with a major in Human Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She then received her Master’s in Nursing from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Anyanwu is passionate about maternal-child health and has been a postpartum nurse for 8 years.
She currently works as a registered nurse at Miller’s Children’s and Women’s Hospital on the Mother-Baby unit and serves as a co-chair on the Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice council. Anyanwu is currently a UCLA doctoral student at the Joe C. Wen School of Nursing working on her dissertation to explore how perinatal Black and African-American women use social media to prepare for childbirth and navigate the postpartum period.
Research Interests:
Maternal-child health; perinatal health disparities; social media and AI use in healthcare and healthcare decision-making