Anita Finkelman is a nurse educator and consultant, providing services in the U.S. and Israel, where she was visiting faculty at Recanati School for Community Health Professions at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and has consulted with several Israeli universities. Previously, she served on faculty and in academic administrative positions at the University of Cincinnati, University of Oklahoma, and Northeastern University. Finkelman earned her BSN from Texas Christian University and her master's degree in psychiatric mental health nursing/clinical nurse specialist from Yale University. She is the author of the Cognella Series on Public and Community Health Nursing. One of the books in the series, Health Equity and Disparities, was awarded third place in the 2022 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in the History and Public Policy category.
