Dian L. Baker

Dian L. Baker is a professor in the School of Nursing at the College of College of Health and Services at California State University, Sacramento, as well as 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 in Japan and 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. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. 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.

updated 2025