Eugenia Flores Millender, Ph.D., RN, PMH-APRN, CDE, FAAN, is a nurse scientist who has dedicated her career to increasing access to preventative mental health services and community-engaged research. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center of Population Sciences for Health Equity, Assistant Dean of Research, and a tenured Associate Professor at Florida State University (FSU) College of Nursing. Her program of research investigates ways to reduce mental health disparities by exploring how socio-cultural stressors and trauma influence transgenerational psychological and co-occurring physical illness through gene-environment interaction among vulnerable, underserved, and marginalized populations nationally and internationally. She brings together academia and the community as equal partners in research initiatives. Before her tenure at FSU, Dr. Millender served as the inaugural director of the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Nurse-led community health center, the first nurse-led university health center in Florida to achieve Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike status, as designated by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration. As an experienced community-based program developer and researcher, Dr. Millender has received over $26 million in extramural funding as principal investigator and multiple PI to decrease health disparities among underserved populations. 

Dr. Millender is an indigenous (Guna) Afro-Latina from the Republic of Panama.  She completed six years in the U.S. Army and received her BSN, MS, and Ph.D. from FAU in Boca Raton, Florida.  She has also earned a post-graduate certificate in psychiatric and mental health nursing from Rush University and another in Precision Medicine from the University of Florida.