ALSN Virtual Conference 2026

Join us for a day of diverse perspectives and emerging ideas in nursing leadership science!

Two sessions to ensure all leaders across the World can attend!

Speakers from Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Georgia, Hong Kong, Italy, Lebanon, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

CE hours will be offered. The conference will be held virtually on Zoom.

Registration Fees - Fees are in USD

• Session 1 only: $50
• Session 2 only: $50
• Both sessions: $75
• Student rate: $25 (covers both sessions)
• Global Access Registration: $25 (covers both sessions)
• Global Access Registration is for participants joining from countries where the standard registration fee may be a barrier.
  
  Click here to view if you are eligible for the Global Access Registration rate

Keynote Speaker: 

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACN(Hon.)
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Topic:
"Global Nursing Leadership: What are we leading and how are we leading it?

Endnote Speaker: 

Professor Sophia Chan Siu Chee PRDHCE, MEd, MPH, PhD, RN, RSCN, FFPH, FAAN, GBS, JP
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Topic:
TBD

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACN(Hon.)

• Senior Policy Service Professor, Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing
• Programme Director, International Council of Nurses, Global Nursing Leadership Institute Professor Emerita, Hunter College, City University of New York
• Producer and Moderator, HealthCetera in the Catskills, WIOX Radio at wioxradio.org

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACN(Hon.), FADLN, is Senior Policy Service Professor at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing; and Professor Emerita at Hunter College, where she held the Rudin Endowed Chair and founded the Center for Health, Media & Policy. She is the Programme Director for the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute, a past President of the American Academy of Nursing, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing. Dr. Mason serves as faculty for the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, where she works with Fellows on strategic communications. She has produced and hosted radio programs on health and health policy since 1985 and currently hosts HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio. She served on the National Advisory Committee for Kaiser Health News from its inception in 2009 to 2024. Dr. Mason is the lead editor of the book, Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care (release of 9^th Edition in 2026); and was the only nurse to be a regular contributor on policy for JAMA Health Forum from 2010 to 2023. She is the principal investigator on Woodhull Study Revisited, a 2017 replication of the 1997 Woodhull Study on Nurses and the Media published in 2018 in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and an additional analysis of journalists’ experiences with using nurses as sources in health news stories, published in the American Journal of Nursing. She is Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Rush Center Health and Social Care Integration; founder, former chair of the board, and now board member of the Catskills Addiction Coalition; and secretary on the board of directors for the Primary Care Development Corporation, the country’s only Community Development Financial Institution dedicated solely to building primary care capacity in the United States. She leads an initiative to build primary care capacity in the Catskills Region of New York State; and is on the board of directors of Margaretville Hospital, a critical access hospital that is part of the Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley/WMCHealth Network. She was the only nurse serving on the board of directors for Public Health Solutions for four years and the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care. Dr. Mason is the recipient of numerous awards for policy, leadership, dissemination of science, writing, education, public health, media and advocacy, including the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Health Policy by the New York Academy of Medicine. the Archon Award for Leadership from Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society, an inaugural Fellow in the Academy of Diversity Leaders in Nursing, and Honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and the Australian College of Nursing. Dr. Mason received a BSN from West Virginia University, MSN from St. Louis University, and PhD from New York University; and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from West Virginia University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Long Island University.

Endnote Speaker:

Professor Sophia Chan Siu Chee PRDHCE, MEd, MPH, PhD, RN, RSCN, FFPH, FAAN, GBS, JP

• Professor and Director, HKU Primary Health Care Academy, 
• School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong 
• Senior Advisor, President’s Office, The University of Hong Kong

Biography

Professor Sophia Chan is currently Senior Advisor to the President’s Office at The University of Hong Kong, Professor and Director of HKU Primary Health Care Academy and Policy Convenor of the HKUMed Primary Health Care Collaboratory. She was appointed by the HKSAR Government to be the Secretary for Food and Health (SFH) from 2017 – 2022.  During her tenure as the SFH, not only has she been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic over 2.5 years, she had also made exemplary efforts and policy initiatives in protecting and promoting the health of the population through major policy initiatives such as embarking on a new journey in primary health care by developing District Health Centres (DHCs) in all 18 districts in Hong Kong. Professor Chan is one of the leading Nurse Scientists locally and internationally and was named among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in her specialty areas by Stanford University in 2020. She has always been the top-funded researcher in HKU School of Nursing and has led many external competitive grants including GRF, HMRF, and commissioned grants from the Government, Hong Kong Jockey Club and key foundations and organisations locally and internationally.  She is a pioneer and founding directors of a number of signature research and training programmes in tobacco dependency therapeutic interventions, and her findings has transformed smoking cessation services and tobacco control policies.