Reed leads National Association

Joy Reed, EdD, RN, head of Public Health Nursing & Professional Development in the Division of Public Health, is the president of the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing (ASTDN). She assumed this role in May at the annual ASTDN meeting in New Orleans.

This is the second time she has headed ASTDN; Reed, who is also Head of the Division's Local Technical Assistance & Training Branch, also served as president of the organization in 2001-2002.

At the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), originally scheduled for November in New Orleans and now rescheduled for December in Philadelphia, Joy will be installed as chair of the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, also for the second time. The Quad Council is comprised of the four major national organizations addressing public health nursing: ASTDN; the Public Health Nursing Section of APHA; the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators; and the Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics of the American Nurses Association (ANA).

Reed is recognized as a national leader in public health nursing. She is chairing the ANA Committee, which is revising the Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing, and, in her previous term as chair of the Quad Council, led the development of a national set of public health nursing competencies.

She has also been honored by North Carolina public health, having received the Reynolds Award in 2000, given to the individual who made the most significant contribution to public health in NC during the previous year, and the Dr. Ham Stevens Award in 2004 for "outstanding contributions to local public health." Reed was also the only public health nurse in the inaugural class of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program.

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Last Modified: September 30, 2005