Health Policy Advisory Council (HPAC)

In January of 2015, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) Board of Directors approved an initiative to create a Health Policy Advisory Council (HPAC) that would provide significant insights to guide the association in its development of Policy statements surrounding current and emerging areas in health, healthcare, and higher education. This work is a part of a larger Board approved proposal that will increase the footprint AACN members can make in the policies that will impact health locally and globally.

HPAC’s purpose is to provide contextual and policy guidance to the association for issues that require insight from nursing academia expertise.

AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council will:

1. Provide strategic guidance for the health policy department on federal level rules and regulations, notices, and other requests for comment
    
2. Identify contemporary and emerging policy issue areas that impact academic nursing
    
3. Review policy statements, analyses, and member communications regarding AACN’s position on national policy issues
    
4. Assist with identification and vetting of individuals to serve as experts to represent the association on specific issues and as nominees for federal committees

Please address your comments to either the chair or AACN staff liaison noted.

	M. Lindell Joseph, PhD, Chair University of Iowa Clinical Professor - Director of Heath Systems/Administration
	Natalie Baker, DNP University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor
	Barbara Damron, PhD University of  New Mexico Professor - Senior Advisor to the Dean
	Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD George Washington University Senior Associate Dean
	Sabrina Dickey, DNP Florida State University Associate Professor
	Lindsey Harris, DNP University of Alabama at Birmingham
	J. Michael Leger, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch Professor
	Matthew McHugh, PhD University of Pennsylvania
	Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, PhD Boston College Assistant Professor
	Suzanne Staebler, DNP Emory University Professor - Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program Director