Publications
Tribute to a nurse: Celebrating the year of the Nurse and Midwife, 2020
By Sr Jackline Mayaka (FSJ), MSN, RN, PhD Candidate, Villanova University The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 2020 as the "International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife" in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. The 'lady with...
Investing in Nurses and Nurse Education to Strengthen Health Systems
By Katie McMullen, Communications Manager at Health Volunteers Overseas Nurses are an essential component of the global health workforce, and a necessary part of any well-functioning health system. They can be found delivering preventive...
Olivia Vélez – Global Digital Health and Nursing
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...
Natasha Viveiros – International Celebration of Nurses
Happy (belated) International Nurses Week! The Global Nursing Caucus kicked off its annual International Celebration of Nurses at Partners in Health, bringing together nurses from diverse backgrounds for continued networking and professional growth. During the...
Emily Scott – 5 Tips for Getting Started in Global Health Nursing
Written by: Emily Scott, RN, BSN. Emily blogs about travel and ethical volunteering at http://www.twodustytravelers.com/ As a nurse who has been on a dozen medical missions over the past decade, I get a lot of questions from nurses about where to start. I know from...
Susie Wood – Compañeros en Salud: Improving Healthcare in Chiapas
Written by: Susan Wood, PNP-BC, MPH, IBCLC “We go. We make house calls. We build health systems. We stay.” These simple principles are the mission statement of Partners In Health, an organization which has grown to include eleven sites around the globe. With its...
Barbara Waldorf – Bhutan: global health at home
Written by: Barbara Waldorf, BSN, MPH There are various threads of my life that weave together, influencing each other in different ways over time. Nursing is one of those threads, global health is another, and meditation is a third. I have spent a significant portion...
Debbie Wilson – Collaboration between expatriate & national nurses
Written by: Deborah Wilson, RN, MSN, MPH, CRNI Sometimes, you make a choice that sets you on a completely different life path than you ever imagined. In 2014 when Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) asked if I would go on mission to work as a nurse during the Ebola...
Fall Conference Welcome– Julie Anathan, RN, MPH
Good morning. My name is Julie Anathan, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at Seed Global Health. I’d like to start by welcoming our guest speakers, Catherine D’Ignazio, Rebecca Michelson, Anna Young and Rebecca Love. Thank you for joining us and providing us with the...
Elizabeth Glaser, PhD, MS in Malawi
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...