Benita Walton-Moss teaches a course on advanced health assessment across the lifespan. Prior to joining USC, she served as director of the master’s program at Johns Hopkins University School of Social Work’s Department of Nursing. Before that, she worked as a co-track coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. 

She has been a registered nurse for more than 35 years and a family nurse practitioner for more than 30 years. Her clinical and research interests focus on health care of vulnerable populations including women’s health and substance abuse. She is enthusiastic about community-based research. 

Walton-Moss received her PhD in nursing science from the University of California, San Francisco, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Rochester, a master’s in management and supervision from Central Michigan University, and a bachelor’s in nursing from Johns Hopkins University.