PhD, University of Florida, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences
Concentration: Youth Development and Family Science; Interdisciplinary Clinical & Translational Science
Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE), National Council on Family Relations
M.A., Boston University, Department of Geography and Environment
Concentration: Natural resource and environmental economics, social science research methods
M.S., University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Concentration: Cost-benefit analysis with risk assessment, lifecycle analysis, impact assessment
Contact Information
Email: tnesbit@ufl.edu
Dr. Nesbit is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Family, Youth and Community Sciences. He studies family and community health with a focus on interpersonal communication, mindfulness, and spirituality. He has experience researching healthy relationships, mental health, maternal health, cardiometabolic health (e.g., diabetes, overweight/obesity, etc.), dementia, and cancer. He uses mixed-methods to advance intervention design, implementation, and evaluation to translate evidence-based practices and improve public health. His research related to spirituality and health has focused on maternal healthcare and systems of care, including the role of spiritual well-being of maternal healthcare providers and the barriers and facilitators of implementing spiritual care in modern healthcare systems. He has co-authored articles related to promoting spiritual well-being for teenagers published on Ask IFAS (Ask IFAS: Tyler Nesbit) and the effects of mantra meditation on various measures of physical, mental, and spiritual health. Personally, he is a committed practitioner of mantra-meditation and bhakti-yoga.