Dr. Murphy-Stone is a consultant on health care in the federal government. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing and practiced with GW Midwifery. She currently practices per diem as a CNM at Inova Loudoun Hospital and at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. She has over 29 years of experience as a nurse-midwife, practicing in settings such as hospitals, community clinics, a birth center, and as a volunteer in a needle-exchange van in Baltimore City. She earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing along with a graduate certificate in Health Disparities and Health Inequality from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation was a randomized trial of self-sampled HPV testing to improve cervical cancer screening in a group of women living with HIV. In 2016 she completed the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Murphy-Stone received her midwifery education and master’s degree at Yale University School of Nursing, an AS in Nursing from Springfield Technical Community College, and an AB in Comparative Literature (English/Spanish) from Brown University.