Sean Clarke, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a health policy and outcomes research who currently holds the Ursula Springer Professorship in Nursing Leadership at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing. His research and writing focuses on quality and safety issues in acute care hospitals, workforce issues, occupational safety of nurses, and the influences of economic and political factors on healthcare delivery and the nursing profession.

He is perhaps best known for research on nurse staffing in hospitals and surveys of nurse working conditions and has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 30 book chapters. In addition to teaching nursing, nursing-related health sciences, health policy, and research at the baccalaureate through doctoral levels, he also supervises PhD and postdoctoral research trainees and maintains a program of research with colleagues from a number of countries. He is currently co-principal investigator of “Towards Magnet 3.0,” a multimethod evaluation of the current Magnet program model, supported by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Outlook, the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing and a leading international venue for current research and thought on leadership, policy and professional issues in nursing.

He has been a consultant to clinicians, leaders, and professional associations on issues related to nursing and patient safety and has been extensively involved in journal editing and peer review of research projects for two decades in Canada, the United States, and internationally. Clarke completed his basic clinical and research training in nursing at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, and pursued a nurse practitioner education and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.