Dr. Campbell has held academic appointments at Florida A & M University, the University of Florida (Gainesville) and the University of South Florida (Tampa), where she was a professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health and Director of Diversity Initiatives for the USF Health Sciences Center-AHEC Program in the College of Medicine. A frequently sought out consultant on diversity initiatives and minority health disparities, Dr. Campbell is nationally recognized for her research and publications on women's and minority health, especially violence and abuse of African American women. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida.