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Sally Solomon Cohen, PhD, RN, FAAN

  • Associate Professor
  • Director - Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership Specialty

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 233
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

sally.cohen@yale.edu

203.737.2545
203.785.6455 fax



About

Sally S. Cohen is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Yale School of Nursing. She is also the director of the new and innovative YSN Specialty in Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership. She has a Master's Degree in nursing from Yale University and a Doctorate in public health and political science from Columbia University. Dr. Cohen's Scholarship focuses on the linkages among practice, policy, and research for several areas, especially maternal and child health, the arrangements between advanced practice nursing and managed care organizations, and the burgeoning area of health care relationships. She is on the associated faculty for the Yale Institution in Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), where she is on the Executive Committee for the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center and Co-Chair of the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center, Research Working Group on the Rights of Children. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship, including the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Yale University School of Nursing and the Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award by the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing in 1988.

Research interests

health care policy, health care relationships, in particular the linkage between macro-level policies and patient care, any aspect of social policymaking for families with children, advanced practice nurses and managed care, the relationships between bioethics and public policy

Research and Grants

Cohen, S.S. Project Director, Advanced Education Nursing Grant, Nursing Management, Policy and Leadership, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, July 1, 2005-June 30, 2008.

Cohen, S. S, A Study of Nursing's Influence in State Health Policymaking, supported by a Yale School of Nursing, Intramural Research Grant, Principal Investigator.

Cohen, S.S., Co-Director, Dissemination Core with R. McCorkle, Self and Family Management of Vulnerable Populations. P-30 Center Grant, Principal investigator and Center Director: M. Grey, National Institute of Nursing Research, 2004-09.

Director, Program for the Study of Health Care Relationships, funded by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, 42 month state-wide initiative for research and knowledge dissemination, July 2000-June 2004 .

Selected awards and honors

Distinguished Alumni of the Year, Yale School of Nursing, 2000.

Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award, Journal of Pediatric Health Care, for "Promoting the nurse practitioner role in managed care" with L. Juszczak, 1998.


“I have a passion for understanding the politics of issues--how and why things happen as they do. Thus, my scholarship focuses on two major areas: the politics of policies for children and the relationships among patients, clinicians, and organizations. Both topics address my desire to improve the quality of care for families in America.“



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