Lorraine Walker is a professor in the School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin. Her health-related research has focused on the health and well-being of parents during pregnancy and the early childrearing years. She has authored more than 60 publications and has been the principal investigator on federal grants. The most recent is a grant for $1.7 M awarded to her and a co-principal investigator, Jeanne Freeland-Graves, for study of weight patterns of low income women after childbirth.