Sara Gody Jackson Bybee

Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Utah

Chapter Member: Utah SSN

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Dr. Bybee leads a research team involved in multiple extramurally funded projects, including a recently funded National Institutes on Aging R01 to develop a measure of financial hardship for LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ persons living with dementia and their care contributors. She aims to lead a program of research into the structural determinants of health disproportionately affecting historically marginalized populations in the context of chronic illness. Dr. Bybee received her master’s of social work from Portland State University and her PhD in nursing from the University of Utah.

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Contributions

The Disproportionate Experience of Financial Hardship and Negative Health Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Communities

Key Findings Brief, March 2025

In the News

Quoted by Rachel Hess in "Research Insights: Together We Thrive," University of Utah Health, October 10, 2024.

Quoted by Sofia Jeremias & Megan Banta in "Despite Homelessness Spiking, Utah Officials Say They are Moving in the Right Direction," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 13, 2024.

Research discussed by Aaron Tallent, in "LGBTQ+ Individuals Vulnerable to Cancer Disparities," Cancer Discovery News, February 13, 2024.

Opinion: "Utah Will Only Achieve Housing Justice if We Prioritize People over Profits," Sara Gody Jackson Bybee, The Salt Lake Tribune, January 31, 2024.

Opinion: "Utah’s Landlord-Tenant Laws Written to Benefit Those in Power," Sara Gody Jackson Bybee, The Salt Lake Tribune, January 12, 2023.

Publications

"Posttraumatic Growth Among Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) and Non-SGM Couples Coping with Cancer: A Convergent Mixed Methods Design", The University of Utah, December 2021.

Examines the relationship between life course stress, posttraumatic growth (PTG), and positive wellbeing among sexual and gender minority and non-SGM couples facing cancer.