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Lorraine O. Walker, RN, EdD, MPH, has a lifelong focus on maternal and infant health and well-being. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Dayton, a Master’s degree in nursing education with a specialization in maternity nursing, and her Doctorate in Philosophy in education from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her dissertation centered on nursing academic practice as a discipline. Walker completed post-doctoral studies in educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and earned an MPH degree in maternal-child health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a leading expert in nursing concerning women’s weight during pregnancy and the postpartum period, with extensive expertise in behavioral and psychosocial health for childbearing women and new mothers. Walker has co-authored a text on theory development strategies that is used worldwide in nursing graduate programs and teaches courses in global health, quantitative data analysis, and the philosophical and theoretical foundations of nursing science. Her current research focuses on stress and coping in women and infants during the extended postpartum period of 2 to 22 months.
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