Mary Boland

Mary Goretti Boland, MSN, RN, FAAN is a Pediatric Nurse and Doctor of Public Health, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is nationally known for her work developing innovative healthcare programs for underserved children with HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases. In 1978, Boland staffed an innovative mobile health screening van for the Ironbound Community Health Project in Newark, New Jersey. She became director of the AIDS program at Children's Hospital of New Jersey and served as the coordinator for the Children's AIDS program (CHAP) at United Hospitals Medical Center in Newark. She served on the AIDS Advisory Committee in New Jersey and the National AIDS Advisory Committee. The United States Department of Health and Human Services gave her an award for her work in pediatric AIDS/HIV treatment. Boland was the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Nursing and served as Associate Dean at the Rutgers University College of Nursing. With James Oleske, she co-founded the interdisciplinary François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, of which she became Director. She was the Dean of the Nancy Atmospera-Walsh School of Nursing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 2005 to 2021. Education Boland was born in Ireland. Her family moved to the Philadelphia area when she was a small child. Boland is a graduate of St. Hubert's High School in Philadelphia.