Barbara A. Anderson

Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the Director of the post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice program (DNP) at Frontier Nursing University, Hyden, Kentucky. She is co-editor of "Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Research, " and Practice (2008 & 2012) and was awarded the American College of Nurse Midwives Book of the Year Award for "Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility" (2005). Dr. Anderson has served on the editorial board of the ...See more

Barbara A. Anderson, DrPH, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the Director of the post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice program (DNP) at Frontier Nursing University, Hyden, Kentucky. She is co-editor of "Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Research, " and Practice (2008 & 2012) and was awarded the American College of Nurse Midwives Book of the Year Award for "Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility" (2005). Dr. Anderson has served on the editorial board of the "Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health" and currently serves as a journal referee for "Medical Anthropology Quarterly" and "Social Science and Medicine". She has served as chair of the Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Anderson led an urban initiative in California that won "The Safe Motherhood Initiative-USA Model Program" award. As a program consultant in Africa, Asia and Latin America, she has prepared nurses, midwives and physicians in public health and the midwifery model of care. See less