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Digital health technologies have the potential to improve quality, increase equity in care provision, and lower costs of care delivery in resource poor settings. The WHO recently urged countries in Africa to increase the use of digital health technologies to...

Since July 2016, I have lived and worked in Malawi as part of the Global Health Service Partnership, a joint program of the Peace Corps, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Seed Global Health. GHSP aims to improve clinical education, expand...

Emily Hall, MSN, MPH is a family nurse practitioner, Global Health Science PhD candidate and clinical faculty at University of California at San Francisco. She started her work in global health as an RN, joining a group affiliated with her hospital doing work in...

The usual response I receive when I tell friends that I am going to Colombia, South America on a medical mission, is that of wide-eyed incomprehension followed by “are you safe there?” Granted, Colombia has a notorious past of violence and sophisticated drug...

Nepal had called me back again.  My last visit there was 20 years ago, so I was very curious about the changes that had occurred, especially after the 2015 earthquake. I spent time in the capital city of Kathmandu, the surrounding small towns as well as a mountaintop...

Doctors without Borders/Medicin Sans Frontiers is a well known international organization started in 1971 by  French Doctors who wanted to provide medical care to “where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics,...

Deb Winters has been providing HIV clinical care since 1986.  She is the Senior Nurse Advisor for I-TECH providing teaching, clinical mentoring and curriculum development that began in Ethiopia in 2003.  Deb provided an overview of I-TECH's Nursing and Midwifery...

by Barbara Waldorf BSN, MPH Throughout my career as a nurse, I have been “burned out” at various times. Along with the impulse to find spiritual freedom, this journey of burnout and creating resilience has brought me to learning and teaching compassion meditation for...

Sarah McAnaw, MPH(c), Siena Easley, MPH(c), Jackson Mesick, MPH(c), Paola Peynetti, MPH(c), Monica Adhiambo Onyango, RN, PhD **All the authors are affiliated with Boston University School of Public Health** Zika virus has arguably become the topic of discussion over...

The Value of And: Global Nurses Embrace the New Lancet Commission on Women And Health By Nancy Street, Lauren Ghazal, Maggie Sullivan, Elizabeth Glaser The interaction between gender and health is a complex one. While we typically conceptualize it in terms of the...

When I was young and considering my career, analyzing numbers was never even a blip on my radar screen. I wanted to find a profession that allowed me to work directly with people and improve their lives in some capacity. For this reason, I went into nursing and have...

I have recently returned from my first visit to Haiti. I have worked in Rwanda mentoring nurses in a hospital and teaching at a nursing school. Last January I traveled to Malawi where I visited hospitals and health centers to listen and learn from the nurses. After...

GNC celebrates Nurses Week with a facilitated discussion: "Nursing Leadership in Global Health" at the PIH office in Boston MA. ​When:   May 12, 2015  @  5:30pm - 7:30pm Where: Partners in Health  888 Commonwealth Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02155.  The event...

As usual, my disclosures first: I am neither a scholar of nor a specialist in trauma-informed care. Though, caring for homeless and immigrant persons in the US, and rural impoverished individuals in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, certainly makes me feel like I should...

Global – “of or relating to the whole world, embracing the whole of something.” Nursing: “…autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings.” (ICN) My name is Barbara Waldorf. I have...

My name is Mary Ellen Biggerstaff, I am a Family Nurse Practitioner living in Olympia, WA and working at a rural health care clinic. I recently attended a Conference at University of California of San Francisco, which was designed as a boot camp for mid-career...

I have recently returned from Liberia, where I worked as a nurse for six weeks along with a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, and other professionals, treating 60 to 80 Ebola patients a day. My 21-day transition time is recently over and, although I am back at...

I recently returned from 7 weeks in India, and was struck by the truth of the often heard statement, "India is a land of contradictions." High tech is everywhere, existing simultaneously with bullock carts and cows on the streets. There are satellite dishes on the...

Only 1 out of 160.... this was the number of Kelly’s Ugandan students who wanted to be nurses. Most of those who sat in her Fundamentals of Nursing class had chosen medical school, dental school or veterinary medicine on their government application to university. In...

Since 2007, nurses at Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services (CBCHS) Women’s Health Programs (WHP) have been working to improve the health of women in Cameroon. CBCHS provides healthcare to over 20% of the population in Cameroon in five hospital, 24 integrated...

At the end of many bumpy back road journeys in my 20+ years of global health practice was a welcoming nurse or midwife eager to share their successes and struggles in providing health care in some of the most remote places on earth.  Working with few materials and...

Inspired and motivated by the need to include the voice of nurses and midwives in the human resources for health (HRH) debate, a joint event was co-sponsored the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Jhpiego on March 5, 2014: Nursing Leadership: An Rx for the Global...

I was in Tehran last week teaching a workshop on cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis at the invitation of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The students in the workshop included physicians, pharmD...

Reprinted from Huffington Post Blog per Sheila Davis I am on the bus heading back to Boston after visiting my family in Brewer, Maine over the holidays and it was, as most travel is, an interesting experience. The characters that fill the bus are amusing and I enjoy...

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) is a referral facility (level 5) in Kisumu County, Kenya. It is about 3km from Kisumu town Centre on the shores of Lake Victoria. JOORTH has an inpatient bed capacity of 600 and a total of 241 nurses. As a...

Kenya Heart and Sole Afya Njema Program is a transnational service-learning, research and advocacy project that partners faculty, students and clinicians from UMass Boston with the Tumutumu and Kijabe Hospital Schools of Nursing, The University of Nairobi School of...

The Romanian nurses at Hospice Casa Sperantei have been unbelievable practice partners! Having formed a mentoring and collaborative relationship with them, both at a clinical practice and academic level, they continue to establish milestones including these areas and...

Supporting “voice” is one of the elements underpinning the notion of Advocacy. As I contemplated what I would share with you relative to this blog - I came to the decision  I really wanted to write about the connection between the concepts of “Advocacy” as...

In a unique model, nurses from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital have been traveling to Rwanda to work with oncology nurses to improve cancer care. Rwanda, known as the “land of a thousand hills”, has a population of 10 million. The...

As a nurse working in a school of public health, I get questions from students who are nurses or those planning to go into nursing after obtaining a public health degree. Commonly-asked questions include: “…how can I merge nursing skills and public health in the real...

Today, October 7, 2013 is a momentous day in the lives of Rwandan midwives and midwifery faculty. Orientation is being held for 38 midwives who are embarking on the first bachelor’s program in midwifery. All of these students currently hold 3-year diplomas from the...

Though GHDonline just concluded a thought-provoking panel discussion on the topic of nurse leadership in the field of global health, and I had intended to blog about that, I’ve since been in Chiapas and Guatemala, facing a face-full of new circumstances. And I can’t...

Over the last few years, I have attended conferences and symposia on differing aspects of global health. These gatherings have been notable for the inclusion of panelists from a wide range of disciplines and experiences: advocates, anthropologists, bench scientists,...