Sally Cohen
FAAN PhD RN
Clinical Professor
sally.cohen@nyu.edu
1 212 992 5929
433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States
Sally Cohen's additional information
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Sally S. Cohen, FAAN, Ph.D., RN, is a clinical professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. As a nationally recognized leader in advancing health policy and nursing at the national and state levels, she helps integrate health policy into nursing education, practice, and research. Her interdisciplinary scholarship encompasses public health, children’s rights, bullying prevention, and the politics of policymaking for children’s issues. As the editor-in-chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice from 2014 to 2019, Cohen helped to create a vibrant forum for nurses and others globally to share ideas and analyses of policies and political activities that affect nursing practice in all venues of care.
Before joining NYU as faculty, Cohen was the 2014–2015 NAM/AAN/ANA/ANF Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine (now the Academy of Medicine). Before that, she directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico. The collaborative, which wrapped up its work in 2017, prepared nursing Ph.D. students for leadership in health policy. As director of policy and research at the National League of Nursing, Cohen helped advocate for legislation that in 1985 established the National Institute of Nursing Research. She also developed and directed the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership specialty at the Yale.
Among her many honors, Cohen received the 2019 Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for her exceptional contributions to the nursing workforce and healthcare policy. She was honored by Yale School of Nursing with its “90 Outstanding Yale Nurses” award in 2013. In 2008, she received the Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership from the Hadassah Nurses Council. She was elected to the New York Academy of Medicine in 2006 and the American Academy of Nursing in 1988.
Cohen earned her PhD from Columbia University, MSN from Yale University, and BA from Cornell University.
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PhD - Columbia UniversityMSN - Yale UniversityBA - Cornell University
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PediatricCommunity/population healthHealth Policy
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American Academy of NursingAmerican Nurses AssociationAmerican Political Science AssociationAmerican Public Health AssociationNational Association of Pediatric Nurse PractitionersSociety for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
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Faculty Honors Awards
Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2019)90 Nurses for 90 Years, Yale University School of Nursing (2013)Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership, Hadassah National Nurses Council (2008)Elected to the New York Academy of Medicine (2006)Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award, Journal of Pediatric Health Care (1998)Dissertation approved with distinction (1993)Marisa de Castro Benton Prize, for outstanding dissertation in Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University (1993)Elected to American Academy of Nursing (1988)Elected to Sigma Theta Tau, International, Honor Society for Nursing, as charter member Delta Mu Chapter (1979) -
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Publications
Nurses have tough work ahead to hold ground in D.C.
Solomon, S. B. (1986). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 7(3), 128-129.Public policy curricula: past and present practices and future directions.
Solomon, S. B., & Roe, S. C. (1986). NLN Publications, 15, 19-41.Sights set on quality care for the elderly.
Solomon, S. B. (1986). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 7(5), 244-245.Strong efforts still needed to survive lean times.
Solomon, S. B. (1986). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 7(6), 298-299.Suppression of immune function in growth hormone-deficient children during treatment with human growth hormone
AbstractRapaport, R., Oleske, J., Ahdieh, H., Solomon, S., Delfaus, C., & Denny, T. (1986). The Journal of Pediatrics, 109(3), 434-439. 10.1016/S0022-3476(86)80113-5AbstractInasmuch as growth hormone is known to interact with the immune system, we studied immune functions including immunoglobulins, cell surface markers, mitogen responses, and polymorphonuclear cell function in eight children with growth hormone deficiency, ages 1 to 17 years, before and during treatment with human growth hormone for 12 to 16 months. Before treatment, immune functions were normal in all children. Treatment with human growth hormone did not significantly affect serum immunoglobulins, polymorphonuclear cell function, or percent T cells. However, percent B cells decreased to subnormal levels in seven of seven patients. T helper/suppressor ratios, decreased in all patients, to subnormal values in seven of eight patients; and mitogen responses decreased to below normal in all. The decline of percent B cells was transient in all patients, of T helper/suppressor ratios in seven of eight, and mitogen responses in five of eight patients. In vitro incubation of lymphocytes with growth hormone resulted in no changes in cell surface markers or mitogen responses. Although the depression of immune functions resulted in no increased rate of infections during the observation period, we do not know the possible effects of prolonged treatment and therefore caution, against the indiscriminate use of human growth hormone. The effects of biosynthetically obtained growth hormone on immune function remain to be determined.Talking points.
Maraldo, P. J., & Solomon, S. (1986). NLN Publications, 41, i-iv, 1.D.C. regulatory battle proves our fight is far from over.
Solomon, S. B. (1985). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 6(5), 242-243.Diverse issues call for decisive action.
Solomon, S. (1985). Nursing & Health Care : Official Publication of the National League for Nursing, 6(9), 479-480.The fate of the National Institute of Nursing.
Solomon, S. B. (1985). NLN Publications, 19, 3-11.Federal funding for nursing education.
Solomon, S. B. (1985). NLN Publications, 19, 19-29.