Nancy M. Short, PhD
Dr. Nancy M. Short is an assistant professor and Chair of the Accelerated Bachelor's of Science in Nursing Program at the Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC. She is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Health Inequalities Program at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. At Duke, she teaches population health, leadership, quality management and health economics to graduate students in the nursing and clinical leadership majors. Dr. Short earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University. She earned her Doctor of Public Health degree with a major in health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. She has 31 years of experience as a registered nurse.
Dr. Short is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow and in 2005 served as a Legislative Health Fellow in the office of the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Bill Frist. The Health Policy Fellowship has been sending clinicians to the Hill for 30 years: Dr. Short is the 19th nurse selected for this prestigious Fellowship.
As a partner in a consulting firm, Dr. Short was hired by the UNC Public Health Management Academy to guide teams from the Virginia Department of Public Health in the development of sustainable business plans. She consulted with the UNC Institute for Public Health on international issues related to distance learning. She has delivered leadership and quality management training to a bi-communal (Turk and Greek) program for nurses in Cyprus and to maternal-child public health leaders in North Carolina. She also has experience teaching research methods to health professionals in Moshi, Tanzania.
As associate executive director of the North Carolina Nurses Association (1995-98), Dr. Short was an advocate for issues facing the nurse workforce in the state as well as underserved populations and served on numerous statewide workgroups. Her research has focused on identifying knowledge gaps for policy makers about nurse practitioner practice.
