OUR PEOPLE
Susan Chapman, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor
School of Nursing
490 Illinois Street, #122K
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, BSN - 1972 Nursing
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, MSN - 1977 Mental Health Nursing
Boston University, Boston, MA, MPH - 1980 Public Health
University of California, Berkeley, CA, PhD - 2000 Health Services and Policy Analysis
Awards and Honors
National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant, National Institute of Mental Health, 1976
Fellowship in Health Policy Management, Pew Memorial Trust, 1983
The Wellness Scholarship Grant for Doctoral Study, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Dissertation Grant, American Cancer Society California Division, 1997
Selected as Fellow, American Academy of Nursing, 2012
Honorary Appointment: Professor, University of Technology Sydney, 2013
Overview
Susan A. Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN is Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF School of Nursing, Healthforce Center and the Institute for Health Policy Studies. She is Co-Director of the Masters and Doctoral programs in Health Policy at the School of Nursing. Her scholarly work focuses on health workforce research and health policy analysis. Susan’s workforce research focuses on transforming health workforce roles in new models of care and payment reform, the long term care workforce, and advanced practice nurses in behavioral health. Over the past 18 years she has been PI, Co-PI, or Co-Investigator for over 35 grants and contracts at the local, state, national, and global level. She served on a NAM committee to address health care workforce needs for an aging U.S. population. Susan received her B.S. from the University of Iowa, her M.S from Boston College, her M.P.H from Boston University, and her PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis from UC Berkeley.