What I Never Learned in Nursing School

Dr. Margaret Moss is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She is currently Professor and Associate Dean for Nursing and Health Policy at the University of Minnesota, School of Nursing. She holds both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. She has been a nurse for 34 years and an academic for 23 years across 4 universities. She was previously-a Nursing Professor and Director of the First Nations House of Learning at the University of British Columbia. She was tapped during her time there as Interim Associate Vice President of Equity & Inclusion at UBC (2022). Dr. Moss sat on the American Academy of Nursing Board of Directors in 2021-2023; is a new member of the National Academy of Medicine (2022); is a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee member on The Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. Dr. Moss was a committee member on the recent consensus report (2023) Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic and Tribal Health Equity. She wrote an award-winning text, American Indian Health and Nursing (2015) followed by Health Equity and Nursing (2020). She co-led the development and launch of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan (2020) and was a consultant on the In Plain Sight Report: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Healthcare in BC (2020). Dr. Moss was named an Inaugural member of the Forbes 50 over 50 Impact list 2021. She was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow staffing the US Senate Special Committee on Aging; and was a Fulbright Chair at McGill University- Montreal, QC, Canada.