Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACN(Hon.), FADLN, is Senior Policy Service Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing; and Professor Emerita at Hunter College, where she held the Rudin Endowed Chair and founded the Center for Health, Media & Policy. She is the Programme Director for the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute, a past President of the American Academy of Nursing, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing. Dr. Mason serves as faculty for the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, where she works with Fellows on strategic communications. She has produced and hosted radio programs on health and health policy since 1985 and currently hosts HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio. She served on the National Advisory Committee for Kaiser Health News from its inception in 2009 to 2024. Dr. Mason is the lead editor of the book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, now in its 8^th Edition; and was a regular contributor on policy for JAMA Health Forum from 2010 to 2023. She is the principal investigator on Woodhull Study Revisited, a 2017 replication of the 1997 Woodhull Study on Nurses and the Media and an additional analysis of journalists’ experiences with using nurses as sources in health news stories. She is Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Rush Center Health and Social Care Integration. She serves as Secretary on the board of directors for the Primary Care Development Corporation, the country’s only Community Development Financial Entity dedicated solely to building primary care capacity and is on the board of directors of Margaretville Hospital, a critical access hospital in the Catskill Mountains. She served on the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care.