Marva Mizell Price, DrPH, RN, FAANP, FAAN, was the first non-white faculty member at DUSON. She started at Duke in the department of Ob-GYN and Oncology as a family nurse practitioner in 1991 and came to DUSON in 1996, retiring in 2013.  She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2002, followed by induction as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2007. 

Price has more than 45 years of nurse practitioner practice in North Carolina and she has been a leading voice for advanced practice nursing and public health policy. She was the program director for the family nurse practitioner specialty for five years where she mentored hundreds of students. She was also the admissions committee chair for DUSON's Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in its first four years. She served as a member of the DNP program committee and many other committees over her time at DUSON. 

At the university, she was a member of the Provost’s Master’s Advisory Council, served on the Academic Council, the Medical Center’s IRB, and she was an affiliate member of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Prevention, Detection & Control Research Program. Price also led four U.S. Department of Defense grants, two of which spanned five years to establish the school’s first relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (North Carolina Central University and Bennett College for Women) to bring 25 undergraduate students to DUSON to mentor them in prostate cancer research over 10 weeks in the summer.

Price served two elected terms to advanced practice as a Board Member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF). While at Duke, she had two gubernatorial appointments for two state commissions - 18 years with N.C. Commission for Public Health, and because of her expertise in public health policy, she was a political appointee with the North Carolina Mining & Energy Commission (the Fracking Commission) which was renamed the Oil and Gas Commission. Price continues to contribute at the local, state and national levels, serving on committees for nursing and population health. She engaged in clinical practice to uninsured women at Lincoln Community Health Center and the Durham County Health Department for many years. Currently, she does locum tenens contracts as a family nurse practitioner in primary care and women’s health clinics around the state.