Linda MacIntyre
PhD RN, PHN, FAAN
Linda MacIntyre volunteers as a Senior Nurse Consultant for the American Red Cross and a Full Clinical Professor Volunteer at the University of California, San Francisco. She served as Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross from 2013 to 2024, where she provided leadership for nurses and other health professionals working across the organization and in all lines of service. Linda provided vision, direction, and support in delivering the Red Cross mission. She oversaw health professional volunteer recruitment, engagement, and recognition. Linda provided oversight for the Academic Service-Learning program. Externally, Linda represented the Red Cross and collaborated with major federal and civilian health and nursing organizations, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and other key stakeholders.
Linda served on the Federal Nursing Service Council and on the American Journal of Nursing
Editorial Board. From 2014 to 2018, she served on the National Advisory Committee on
Children and Disasters (NACCD), for the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness & Response
Secretary, Health & Human Services. She taught community health nursing at the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Before becoming a nurse, Linda worked as a residential social worker in a children’s home in
England. Her nursing experience includes 5 years in hemodialysis and 28 years in community
health nursing.
Linda has participated in community coalitions, was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps Steering Committee in Kansas City, and worked closely with the Kansas City Public Health Department to improve disaster response in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. She was the director of community health and youth for the Red Cross Greater Kansas City Region, where she oversaw an Influenza vaccination program that served an average of 12,000 individuals annually. Other program responsibilities included HIV/AIDS education for children and adults, family caregiving, health screening, academic service-learning, and youth education. She was responsible for disaster health response across five counties and convened a forum for community partners to improve disaster preparedness, response, and recovery through collaboration. Linda served on the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters from 2014-2018.
Linda used community-based participatory research principles in a qualitative study conducted in the United States and Malawi. She published the study findings, which addressed perspectives of non-governmental organizations in gaining community trust, how Malawian women influenced health changes in response to the AIDS epidemic for their families despite being “socially disempowered,” and how financial donors can help or hinder community health.
Linda has a bachelor’s degree in theology from Westminster College in Oxford, England, a bachelor’s nursing degree from Texas Christian University, and a PhD in nursing from UCSF.
