Terry Foody, RN, MSN, is a graduate of Niagara University, New York and the University of Kentucky. She has worked in community health, taught nursing at Kentucky State University, and coordinated research projects for new medicines/treatments at the University of Kentucky. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honor Society.
She was Project Coordinator of a Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Stormwater Quality Research Grant for Friends of Wolf Run Watershed. See the study.
Terry is on the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau www.kyhumanities.org, and the author of two non-fiction history books.
SPEAKING TOPICS
- Infectious Disaster: 1833 Cholera Epidemic in Lexington, KY
- Kinsmen in Words: Cherokee Sequoyah & Howard Gratz
- Search for Ancestors Land: New Yorker Finds Old Kentucky Home
- What’s in Wolf Run Water: Community Health Impact Survey
She was interviewed by Humanities Executive Director Bill Goodman to compare the Covid-19 pandemic with Cholera. # 128. Take me to the interview.
An interview with Ms. Foody about the 1833 Cholera Epidemic was included in the PBS/KET special: Kentucky History Magazine. Terry's segment starts at 16:39 mins into the video.
Take me to the full video.
Take me to Terry Foody's segment.
A Locust Grove Living Room Lecture (by Zoom) on the 1833 Cholera Epidemic with Lessons for our Global Health Today. Take me to the video.
Foody authored a KyForward article citing the history of collaboration and cooperation in pandemic response. Take me to the story.
Cholera: Lessons for Our Global Health Today - by Terry Foody
Terry Foody photograph courtesy of Lexington Herald-Leader.
