Judith Haber, APRN-BC, PhD, FAAN, is the Ursula Springer Leadership Professor in Nursing at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She has been an internationally recognized leader in psychiatric nursing for the last 40 years. She is the author of the award-winning textbook Comprehensive Psychiatric Nursing, now in its 8th edition, which has been translated into five languages. Consistent with the current emphasis on integrating behavioral health into primary care, Dr. Haber has been a longtime advocate of the integration of mental health and physical health, a topic on which she has published widely. She is also a recognized expert in evidence-based practice and a co-author of the award-winning nursing research text Nursing Research: Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-based Practice, now in its 9th edition, which has been translated into five languages. Her latest book, Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Quality Healthcare Improvement, was published in 2019.

Dr. Haber is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 and 2005 Psychiatric Nurse of the Year Award from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the 1998 ANA Hildegarde Peplau Award, and Distinguished Alumnae Awards from Adelphi University and NYU Meyers. She is the 2011 recipient of the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2014 NYU Alumni Meritorious Service Award, the 2015 Sigma Theta Tau International Marie Hippensteel Lingeman Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice, and the 2017 DentaQuest Health Equity Hero Award. Haber was named senior scholar at the Santa Fe Group in 2018. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and New York Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Haber is the NYU Meyers leader of interprofessional education and practice, with a special focus on oral-systemic health, collaborating with interprofessional partners at NYU College of Dentistry and NYU School of Medicine. She co-chairs the NYU Interprofessional Research, Education and Practice Steering Committee. She is the executive director of the Oral Health Nursing Education Practice (OHNEP) program, a national nursing oral health initiative funded by the DentaQuest and Arcora foundations, which received an Edge Runner Award from the American Academy of Nursing in 2019. She is the principal investigator on Teaching Oral-Systemic Health, a HRSA-funded program. Haber is the lead author of the landmark 2015 AJPH publication Putting the Mouth Back in the Head: HEENT to HEENOT.

Dr. Haber is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health and a member of the HRSA Expert Panel that developed the 2014 Interprofessional Oral Health Core Competencies for Primary Care Providers. She is a member of the Technical Expert Panel that developed the 2015 Qualis Health White Paper “Oral Health: An Essential Component of Primary Care.” Dr. Haber is a member of the Pacific Dental Services Oral-Systemic Health Advisory Board, the DentaQuest Institute More Cares Program National Advisory Committee, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative National Steering Committee on Shared Principles, and the New York State Nurse-Family Partnership Advisory Board. Haber has consulted, presented, and published widely on interprofessional education and practice and oral-systemic health issues. She was recently selected as a contributor to the forthcoming 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health.

Dr. Haber received her PhD  and MA from NYU and BSN from Adelphi University.