Publications

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...