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Public Health Nurse
San Francisco Department of Public Health
San Francisco, California
Daniela Vargas, MSN, MPH, MA-Bioethics, RN, PHN, is a public health nurse and her academic work focuses on addressing racism in nursing, creating anti-racist nursing practices and creating workforce support programs for Black, Brown and Indigenous nursing students to successfully matriculate, graduate and post-graduation opportunities. Daniela is also an inaugural member of the Society of Latinx Nurses (SOLN), which is a new Latinx nursing organization focused on serving and advocating for the Latinx community as well as addressing racism within nursing and the Latinx community with the common goal to support Latinx nurses especially those from Black, Brown and Indigenous backgrounds. Daniela also graduated from the University of San Francisco where she received her MSN and MPH in 2017 as well as Loyola University Chicago’s M.A. in Bioethics and Health Policy where her capstone focused on the ethical implications of the nursing profession acknowledging DACA and undocumented nursing students and nurses. Daniela currently works as a public health nurse in the clinical setting in the Bay Area within the birthing community providing education and support to women in the prenatal and postpartum periods as well as providing care rooted in reproductive justice primarily to Black, Brown and Indigenous women. Daniela serves as a co-chair for the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing and a co-chair for the 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses Revision Panel.
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time