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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...
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...