Anne Marie Rafferty

Rafferty holds a BSc in nursing studies from the nursing studies department at the University of Edinburgh, an M.Phil in surgery from the University of Nottingham and a D.Phil in modern history from the University of Oxford. She won a Harkness Fellowship to study at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Linda Aiken on the role of nursing in the Clinton Administration's health care reform agenda.

Rafferty's research interests combine history, health policy and health services research. She was appointed director of the Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994, and subsequently head of the Health Services Research Unit.

In the 2008 New Year Honours, Rafferty was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of her services to healthcare. Rafferty is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (2002)[6] and the American Academy of Nursing.[7] In 2009 Rafferty delivered the Winifred Raphael Memorial lecture[8] at the Royal College of Nursing Congress. In 2016 Rafferty was inducted into the Sigma Honor Society International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.[9]

• Rafferty AM, Webster C, Dingwall R (1988) An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing Routledge, London ISBN 0-203-40331-2
• Rafferty AM (1996) The politics of nursing knowledge Routledge, London ISBN 0-415-11491-8
• Rafferty AM, Traynor M (2002) Exemplary research for nursing and midwifery Routledge, London ISBN 0-203-47070-2

• Official website at King's College London
• Higher Education Funding Council for England website
• "The Seductions of History and the Nursing Diaspora" by Anne Marie Rafferty
• Complete list of publications