Dr. Diana Mason
PhD, RN, FAAN
Senior Policy Service Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement,
George Washington University School of Nursing
Host HealthCetera
Season 01 - Episode 09
Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN,
Dr. Mason is Senior Policy Service Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing; and Professor Emerita at Hunter College, where she held the Rudin Endowed Chair and founded the Center for Health, Media & Policy. She is the Deputy Program Director for the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute, a past President of the American Academy of Nursing, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing. She has produced and hosted radio programs on health and health policy since 1985 and currently hosts HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio. She has served as the only health professional on the National Advisory Committee for Kaiser Health News since its inception in 2009. Dr. Mason is the lead editor of the book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, now in its 8th edition, and blogs on policy for HealthCetera and JAMA News Forum. She is the principal investigator on a replication of the 1998 Woodhull Study on Nurses and the Media published in 2018 in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and an additional analysis of journalists’ experiences with using nurses as sources in health news stories, including on policy, published in the American Journal of Nursing. She is Co-Chair of the Catskills Addiction Coalition and serves on the Board of Directors for Margaretville Hospital (part of the Westchester Medical Health Network), the Primary Care Development Corporation, and Public Health Solutions. She is the recipient of numerous awards for policy, leadership, dissemination of science, writing, education, public health, media and advocacy; most recently the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Health Policy by the New York Academy of Medicine in 2019 and the Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University Transformational Leadership Award in 2020. Dr. Mason received a BSN from West Virginia University, MSN from St. Louis University, and PhD from New York University; and holds an honorary doctorate of science from West Virginia University and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Long Island University.
