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Dr. Mary Beth Bigley is currently the Director for the Division of Nursing and Public Health in the Bureau of Health Workforce at HRSA. In her role, she provides leadership on policies and program initiatives that promote education and practice as well as the supply, skills and distribution of qualified personnel needed to improve the health of the public. This includes increasing the diversity of the workforce to improve access to health care in underserved areas. She also serves as the Chair of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice.

Dr. Bigley joins HRSA from the HHS’s Office of the U.S. Surgeon General less than a year ago, where she was the Director of the Division of Science and Communications., and severed as the Acting Editor for Public Health Reports.

Dr. Bigley received a doctorate in Health System and Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Systems and currently holds an academic position at The George Washington University in the School of Nursing.