Audrey Lyndon

Dr. Lyndon is the Vernice D. Ferguson Professor in Health Equity and Executive Vice Dean at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her equity work is focused in two areas: maternal health equity and diversifying the nursing science and healthcare workforce. Dr. Lyndon’s maternal health work has focused on patient safety and quality in maternity and neonatal care, including improving communication and teamwork among clinicians; identifying parents’ perspectives on safety during labor, birth, and neonatal care; developing nurse-sensitive outcomes for labor and birth; and research on severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality. Her team has conducted groundbreaking research on differences in clinicians’ and parents’ perspective on speaking up about safety concerns and developing an understanding of how women and parents conceptualize safety during childbirth and neonatal intensive care. Dr. Lyndon co-chaired the development of the CMQCC Obstetric Hemorrhage Toolkit, which became a national and international model for maternal safety bundles and collaborative quality improvement. Dr. Lyndon recently completed a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality examining relationships between nursing care during labor and patient outcomes. She is currently focused on understanding the experiences of Black and Latinx survivors of severe maternal morbidity to better identify their support needs, research priorities, and community-driven prevention targets for severe maternal morbidity. Dr. Lyndon’s work on diversifying the nursing science and healthcare workforce includes mentoring and sponsorship of historically excluded clinicians and scientists and efforts to build effective pathways programs for historically excluded individuals into nursing, nursing science, and clinical specialties.