Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACN(Hon.), FADLN, is Senior Policy Service Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing; and Professor Emerita at Hunter College, where she held the Rudin Endowed Chair and founded the Center for Health, Media & Policy. She is the Programme Director for the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute, a past President of the American Academy of Nursing, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing. Dr. Mason serves as faculty for the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, where she works with Fellows on strategic communications. She has produced and hosted radio programs on health and health policy since 1985 and currently hosts HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio. She served on the National Advisory Committee for Kaiser Health News from its inception in 2009 to 2024. Dr. Mason is the lead editor of the book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, now in its 8th Edition; and was the only nurse to be a regular contributor on policy for JAMA Health Forum from 2010 to 2023. She is the principal investigator on Woodhull Study Revisited, a 2017 replication of the 1997 Woodhull Study on Nurses and the Media published in 2018 in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and an additional analysis of journalists’ experiences with using nurses as sources in health news stories, published in the American Journal of Nursing. She is Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Rush Center Health and Social Care Integration and of the Steering Committee for the Catskills Addiction Coalition. She serves on the board of directors for the Primary Care Development Corporation, the country’s only Community Development Financial Entity dedicated solely to building primary care capacity; leads an initiative to build primary care capacity in the Catskills Region of New York State; and is on the board of directors of Margaretville Hospital, a critical access hospital that is part of the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley/WMCHealth Network. She was the only nurse serving on the board of directors for Public Health Solutions for four years and the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care. Dr. Mason is the recipient of numerous awards for policy, leadership, dissemination of science, writing, education, public health, media and advocacy, including the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Health Policy by the New York Academy of Medicine. the Archon Award for Leadership from Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society, an inaugural Fellow in the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing, and Honorary Fellowship in the Australian College of Nursing. Dr. Mason received a BSN from West Virginia University, MSN from St. Louis University, and PhD from New York University; and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from West Virginia University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Long Island University.