Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 28, 2000

Volume 28, Number 18

Grey named to federal council on nursing research

Margaret Grey, an associate dean at the School of Nursing (YSN), has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, the body that determines how federal money for nursing research should be spent.

Grey, who is associate dean for nursing research and the Independence Foundation Professor, is one of only three nurses on the 12-member National Advisory Council. In addition to deciding where to allocate federal dollars, the council also makes decisions on individual grant requests.

Historically, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has devoted a relatively high percentage of funds to research training, rather than to research projects, according to Grey. "That's a reflection of the developmental nature of our science," says the Yale nurse. "As more senior researchers emerge in the discipline, we'll see a shift in our funding priorities. How that shift will take place is one of the major issues that NINR will face in the next 5 to 10 years."

Grey has concentrated her own clinical research on the adaptation of children and families to diabetes, and she has been a strong advocate for systemic change to better support people living with chronic conditions.

"I strongly believe that more research is needed to chart strategies to help the large and underserved community of families coping with chronic illness," Grey explains.

Grey will begin her work with the council in February. She will continue her duties as associate dean and professor at the YSN.

"Margaret Grey has overseen a tremendous period of growth in YSN's research effort that included the founding of our doctoral program," says Dean Catherine L. Gilliss. "The same intelligence and passion that she has brought to scholarship at Yale will now go to serve the profession of nursing as a whole.

"Obviously, as dean of the school, I'm pleased to see faculty appointed to prestigious bodies," Gilliss adds. "But on this occasion, I am pleased mainly as a nurse, because having Margaret Grey chart the course for nursing research in the next century is one of the best things that could happen to this profession that she and I love so much."

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