qualifications: PhD
position: Associate professor
United States
Maria Gilson deValpine, RN MSN Phd, teaches public health, health policy, and epidemiology at James Madison University Department of Nursing. She is a public health nurse by trade, training, and passion. Her research interests include health disparities, public policy, field epidemiology, and public health education. Dr. deValpine's work in health disparities has most most recently been informed by her practice in "bush" Alaska.
COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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