Dian L. Baker

Dian L. Baker is a professor in the School of Nursing in the College of College of Health and Services at California State University, Sacramento. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the MIND Institute and volunteer clinical faculty in pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center. Baker has been an international visiting professor in schools of nursing at Kochi Prefectural University, Hyogo Prefectural University, and the Women’s University in Japan as well as a volunteering visiting professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Vietnam. She also managed the Safe School/Healthy Students initiative at Sacramento City Unified School District and coordinated the Healthy Start program at Elk Grove Unified School District in California. Her research includes hospital-based studies and community-based participatory research that rely on both qualitative and quantitative methods. During the span of her 40-year nursing career, she has partnered with multiple organizations and hospitals to design research studies and disseminate findings. Baker received her PhD in nursing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa along with an MSN and MA in childhood development from California State University, Sacramento and a BSN in nursing from California State University, Chico. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis.

updated 2025