Save Date: 2025 Helen Nahm Research Lecture Awardthe

Susan Chapman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the recipient of the 2025 Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award in honor of her outstanding contributions to nursing science, health policy and research. Save the date for June 4, 3 p.m., when Chapman will deliver the Helen Nahm Research Lecture. The event will be held in Genentech Hall on the Mission Bay campus. A reception will follow.

An esteemed professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman is a global leader in workforce research and health policy analysis. Her workforce research focuses on transforming health workforce roles in new models of care and payment reform, the long-term care workforce and advanced practice nurses in behavioral health. She has been a principal investigator (PI), Co-PI or Co-Investigator for over 45 grants and contracts at the local, state, national and global level.

The Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award is an annual award that recognizes a UCSF School of Nursing faculty member or alumnus who has made an outstanding contribution to nursing science and research.

This award honors Helen Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor emerita and dean of the UCSF School of Nursing between 1958-1969. Through her research findings, Nahm shared her ideas and vision with a new generation of nurses. It is to exemplify this excellence of scholarship and dedication of purpose that the Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award was instituted.

The Award consists of a monetary gift, commemorative plaque and medal presented at the lecture on a date to be announced.