Anne Marie Rafferty

Dame Anne Marie Rafferty DBE (born 7 May 1958[1]) is a British nurse, administrator, academic, and researcher. She is currently a professor of nursing policy, having previously been the dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.[2] She was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10[3] and currently chairs The Lancet Commission on Nursing.[4] For 2019 she was elected president of the Royal College of Nursing.[5]


Anne Marie Rafferty

Born (1958-05-07) 7 May 1958
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationProfessor of Nursing Policy
Known forResearch on Nursing
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineNursing
InstitutionsKing's College London
Websitehttps://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/anne_marie.rafferty.html & http://www.annemarierafferty.com

Education

Rafferty holds a BSc in nursing studies from the nursing studies department at the University of Edinburgh, an MPhil in surgery from the University of Nottingham and a DPhil in modern history from the University of Oxford. She won a Harkness Fellowship to study at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Linda Aiken on the role of nursing in the Clinton Administration's health care reform agenda.

Research

Rafferty's research interests combine history, health policy and health services research. She was appointed director of the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994, and subsequently head of the Health Services Research Unit.

Awards and recognition

Rafferty was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for services to healthcare and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to nursing.[6]

Rafferty is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (2002)[7] and the American Academy of Nursing.[8] In 2009 Rafferty delivered the Winifred Raphael Memorial lecture[9] at the Royal College of Nursing Congress. In 2016 Rafferty was inducted into the Sigma Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.[10]

Books

  • Rafferty AM, Webster C, Dingwall R (1988) An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing Routledge, London ISBN 0-203-40331-2
  • Rafferty AM (1996) The politics of nursing knowledge Routledge, London ISBN 0-415-11491-8
  • Rafferty AM, Traynor M (2002) Exemplary research for nursing and midwifery Routledge, London ISBN 0-203-47070-2

References

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