Publications
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...
UCSF Global Health Fellowship’s Emily Hall, MSN, MPH
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...
It’s “Colombia”, NOT “Columbia” –Paula Matarrese, FNP-BC
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...
Nursing in Nepal– Barbara Waldorf, BSN, MPH
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...
Nursing in MSF
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,...
International Nurses Day Celebration
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...