Jeneile M. Luebke, PhD, RN

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in: Nursing, 2020
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison in: Nursing, 2009
BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison in: Nursing, 2002
AS Nursing, Northland Community College, 1999
General Science, Bemidji State University, 1999
Diploma Practical Nursing, Northwest Technical College, 1998

Jeneile Luebke, PhD, RN, is a registered nurse and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an enrolled member of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and is crane clan. She is a member of Wisconsin’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Taskforce. She received an Outstanding Woman of Color award in 2025. She leads the annual Native Nations Nursing, Helpers, and Healers Summit and is a Co-Director of the Center for Indigenous Research to Create Learning and Excellence (CIRCLE) program on campus. Her research aims to better understand the lived experiences of gender-based violence through storytelling, as well as advocating for survivor-led, trauma-informed, and culturally safe screening methods and interventions for Indigenous survivors of violence using Indigenous-specific and community-engaged research methodologies.

Research Focus Areas

Health Equity

• Impacts of gender-based violence on health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples
• Addressing structural violence and barriers to help seeking after experiences of violence
• Development of culturally specific and trauma informed screening methods and interventions for Indigenous survivors of violence
• Improvement of data collection to ensure representation of Indigenous peoples
• Intersection of land violence and gender-based violence among Indigenous peoples
• Resiliency factors and cultural identity of violence survivors

Mental Health and Substance Use

• Intersectionality of mental health, substance misuse, and gender-based violence
• Addressing barriers to care related to lack of comprehensive or culturally specific services to survivors of violence who also experience mental health or substance misuse issues
• Development of culturally specific interventions to better support survivors of violence with cooccurring mental health and substance misuse issues

Children, Families and Reproductive Health

• Impacts of gender-based violence on children and families
• Intergenerational trauma
• Impacts of gender-based violence and pregnancy experiences/outcomes

Health Equity      Mental Health and Substance Use      Children, Families and Reproductive Health

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