Monica Rose Mclemore

Dr. Monica R. McLemore is a visiting professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University. Prior to this, she was a tenured, full professor in the Child, Family, and Population Health Department and the Director for the Manning-Price Spratlan Center for Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE) in Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She previously held the Endowed Professorship and Lecture in Health Promotions. Throughout 2023, she served as the Interim Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the School of Nursing. She retired from clinical practice as a public health and staff nurse after a 28-year clinical nursing career in 2019, however, continues to provide flu and COVID-19 vaccines.

Her program of research is focused on understanding reproductive health and justice. To date, she has 145 peer reviewed articles, OpEds and commentaries and her research has been cited in the Huffington Post, Lavender Health, eight amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States, and four National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine reports, and a data visualization project entitled How To Fix Maternal Mortality: The first step is to stop blaming women that was published in the 2019 Future of Medicine edition of Scientific American.

Her work has also appeared in publications such as Dame Magazine, Politico, ProPublica/NPR and she made a voice appearance in Terrance Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a past chair for Sexual and Reproductive Health section of the American Public Health Association. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. She became the Editor in Chief of Health Equity Journal in 2022.