Anne Marie Rafferty
Anne Marie Rafferty, CBE, 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. She was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10 and currently chairs The Lancet Commission on Nursing. For 2019 she was elected president of the Royal College of Nursing.Education
Rafferty holds a BSc in nursing studies from the nursing studies department at the University of Edinburgh, an M.Phil in surgery from the University of Nottingham and a D.Phil 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
In the 2008 New Year Honours, Rafferty was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to healthcare. Rafferty is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing. In 2009 Rafferty delivered the Winifred Raphael Memorial lecture at the Royal College of Nursing Congress. In 2016 Rafferty was inducted into the Sigma Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.Books
- Rafferty AM, Webster C, Dingwall R An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing Routledge, London
- Rafferty AM The politics of nursing knowledge Routledge, London
- Rafferty AM, Traynor M Exemplary research for nursing and midwifery Routledge, London
