Women's Health During and After Pregnancy

Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, ScD (Hon), RN, FAAN, ANEF, is a professor in the University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Nursing. She has been an educator for more than 40 years, and previously has held faculty positions at the University of Connecticut and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a prolific writer, and has served as lead or coauthor for 15 books, more than 200 journal articles, and 97 chapters and monographs. Three of Dr. Fawcett's books have won American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards—The Relationship of Theory and Research (1992, with Florence S. Downs), Contemporary Nursing Knowledge (2005), and Evaluating Research for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice (2009, with Joan Garity). She has been elected to Sigma Theta Tau, Pi Lambda Theta, and the American Academy of Nursing. She continues to serve on the editorial review panels of several journals. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from Boston University (1964), and her master of arts degree in parent—child nursing with a minor in nursing education (1970) and a PhD in nursing (1976), both from New York University. Dr. Fawcett received a doctor of science degree Honoris Causa from Universite Laval, in Quebec, Canada (2013). She was named a Living Legend by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses (2012), and received the Betty Neuman Award for Nursing Leadership from Walsh University Byers School of Nursing in North Canton, Ohio (2015).