Margaret P. Moss, Ph.D., J.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Current Title: Professor, Associate Dean of Nursing and Health Policy
Current Organization: The University of Minnesota
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Dr. Margaret Moss is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. She has been a nurse for 35 years and an academic for 24 years across 4 universities including the University of Minnesota (twice) where she has returned as Professor in Nursing and Associate Dean of Nursing and Health Policy, Yale University, SUNY Buffalo and the University of British Columbia (UBC). Just prior she was at UBC 2018-2023, as a Professor, School of Nursing, Interim Associate Vice President Equity & Inclusion for the University, and Director of the UBC First Nations House of Learning, a strategic Indigenous leadership position under the Provost. She co-led the development and launch of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan (2020) one of the only comprehensive plans in No. America. Dr. Moss was named to the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List, 2021. She was honored with the Nurse with A Global Impact Award given at the UN Delegates Dining Room, 2023. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing’s Board 2021 and has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2022). She sits on a Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. She has contributed to 2 NAM consensus studies- Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity (2022), and currently The Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research. Dr. Moss wrote an award-winning text, American Indian Health and Nursing (2015) followed by Health Equity and Nursing (2020). In other experiences, Dr. Moss was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She was a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University on Indigenous Life Across the North American Context. She is asked to speak often on Indigenous, health, aging, diversity and policy issues with academics, health professionals and other groups nationally and internationally.
Fellow in 2008-2009
Professor, Associate Dean of Nursing and Health Policy
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Margaret P. Moss, Ph.D., R.N., J.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Leadership, Systems, Informatics and Policy Co-operative in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, as well as Director of Inclusivity and Diversity. She is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, with equal lineage in the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe. She has researched, presented extensively, and written on the subject of American Indians, aging, and policy.
She received a B.S. in biology from Washington State University, an M.N. from the University of Phoenix, and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center, where she was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
She is one of only 13 doctorally prepared American Indian nurses in the country. She then completed a 2-year postdoctorate fellowship at the University of Colorado’s Native Elder Research Center. Concurrently, she entered law school and was awarded a J.D. from Hamline University School of Law. She is the only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates.
Dr. Moss envisions advocacy from both health and legal perspectives. In 2004, Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed her to the Minnesota Board on Aging, where she serves on the diversity and the public policy committees. She was one of 19 National Congress of American Indians delegates to represent Indian issues at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. She was recently elected secretary to the National Interfaith Council on Aging, an interest group of the National Council on Aging.
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