Prof. Dame Anne Marie Rafferty

Professor of Health & Nursing Policy, King’s College London

Dame Anne Marie is Professor of Health & Nursing Policy, former Dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College, London and Past President of the Royal College of Nursing. She holds degrees from Edinburgh University (BSc Soc Sci Nursing Studies); Nottingham University (MPhil Surgery) and was the first nurse to graduate with a doctorate from Oxford University (DPhil Modern History). She is a historian, health, workforce, policy researcher & expert. She was the first nurse to win a prestigious Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy (University of Pennsylvania).

She served on the Prime Minister’s Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery, 2009-10 and been recipient of various awards; Nursing Times Leadership Award (2014); Health Services Journal Top 100 Clinical Leaders Award in 2015; 2017 nominated as one of 70 most influential nurses in the 70 years of the National Health Service. She co-led a Student Commission on the Future of the NHS supported by NHS England and was a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, 2018. She was a member of The Times (newspaper) Health Commission (2023-4) and is a regular commentator in the media. She is an Associate Fellow of the health think tank The Nuffield Trust & Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. 

She holds Fellowships from the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN) UK, Australian College of Nursing (FACN); American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2019 (FMedSci); Member of the Academia Europaea 2020 and the first UK nurse elect to the National Academy of Science & Medicine in the US in 2021. She was awarded a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) from Her Majesty the Queen for services to nursing in 2020.