Publications

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...