Program Director, Nursing
Morgan State University
Laurel, MD
Dr. Maija Anderson serves as the Program Director for Nursing at Morgan State University
and in practice as a Nursing Supervisor/Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiner at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She has over 30 years of nursing experience,
in the practice setting, professional nursing associations and in academia. An
accomplished grant writer, she has secured over 10 million dollars in federal and state
funding, to improve outcomes in minority nursing students, developing distance learning
programs that increased nursing program capacity for minority nursing students, and in
support of mentoring faculty and students. Her experience in practice includes ER
Nursing, Pediatric Nursing and Leadership.
Her doctoral research focused on evaluating characteristics of health care providers and
how those characteristics impacted their prescribing practices of pain medication to
African-Americans in the Emergency Department. Her research interests and community
advocacy include evaluating and advocating for the need for implementing protocols for
healthcare providers treating victims of excessive use of police force and strategies for
improving educational outcomes in minority nursing students. Most recently, she worked with a group of forensic nurses known as "The Collective" developed an original forensic nursing model of care for victims of law enforcement violence.
