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Go Global! March 14th, 2025

Go Global

Date: Friday, March 14 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Health Sciences Education Building Room 101

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The University of Washington School of Nursing Center for Global Health Nursing invites you to join us March 14 at 12:30pm for our annual event.

This year’s event theme will focus on women’s health and will include a catered lunch, feature researchers and rising stars in the field of global health, and give attendees an opportunity to view poster presentations from our Global Health Nursing Certificate students and 2024 study abroad participants!

Plenary Speaker

Dr. Nancy Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Nancy Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Dean Emeritus

Nancy Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a renowned figure in nursing. Recognized by her research and academic leadership throughout her career, Dr. Woods was given the distinction of “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing in 2017. In addition to her long research career, she was the dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing from 1998 – 2008, and was pivotal in launching, with the expertise of faculty and students at the School of Nursing, the first Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program on the West Coast.

Dr. Woods began her research focusing on young adult women’s roles and their health as they entered the labor force. She led the first prevalence study of perimenstrual symptoms in the US in the early 1980s and identified a variety of symptom patterns linking symptoms to reproductive endocrine measure, stressors and stress response biomarkers. Over the course of her research career, Dr. Woods co-established the first NIH-funded Center for Women’s Health Research and the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study, following over 500 women for up to 20 years.  She also was an investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative and the MsFLASH study, focusing on symptom management for hot flashes. Her work has significantly advanced the understanding of menstrual cycle symptoms, menopause, and healthy aging.

Dr. Woods served on multiple national advisory committees, including the first NIH National Advisory Committee for Women’s Health, which established the original NIH agenda for Women’s Health Research. She has also served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

Since retiring from the University of Washington in 2017, Dr. Woods continues to advocate for women’s health by volunteering her time working with the Women Living Better, an organization designed to provide women with evidence-based information about menopause. 

Guest Speaker

Karin Huster, BSN, MPH

Karin Huster, BSN, MPH

UW graduate Karin Huster earned her BSN in 2005 and her MPH from the DGH in 2013. After working for nine years as an RN at Harborview Medical Center’s Trauma ICU, she focused her work on responding to humanitarian emergencies: as a field epidemiologist or in emergency coordination roles for MSF’s (Doctors without Borders) emergency pool as well as in her health advisor function for USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance. Her work has taken her throughout the world, to meet the needs of refugees and other marginalized populations.  A small list of her work experiences include spending 2014-2016 in West Africa during the height of the Ebola epidemic, responding to a large yellow fever outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2017, responding to a dangerous Ebola outbreak in the DRC in 2018, managing a MSF emergency war hospital in Iraq in 2018, volunteering with King County Public Health on their COVID response in the homeless population and spending 5 months in Gaza in 2024. She is tireless. She currently serves as a Medical Coordinator for MSF in Gaza. She disseminates the injustices she witnesses in her work through Op-eds in the New York Times,  via video blogs on YouTube and social media. In 2024 she was awarded the distinguished Alumna Award from the UWSON.

Frontiers of Global Health: Exploring the Ethics of Phased COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

On January 19, 2021, the Center for Global Health Nursing, with moderator and DNP Student Tyler Breier, hosted a panel of leaders engaged in the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. We welcomed four leaders from different disciplines to discuss the challenges and the ever evolving ethical discussions of vaccine distribution on a wide scale.

Panelists were Claudia Emerson, Director of the Institute on Ethics & Policy for Innovation and Associate Professor at McMaster University, Carina Fourie, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Washington, Jax Hermer, Equity Officer on the Pierce County COVID-19 Response Team and Sarah Shannon, Dean and Professor at Montana State University College of Nursing.

Meet the Panelists Here

Additional resources referenced in the panel

 

Global Month 2020

Global Health Nursing: From Training to Practice
November 10, 2020

This year, as part of UW Global Month hosted by the Population Health Initiative, the Center for Global Health Nursing (CGHN) asked nurses in global health to share their experiences going from training to practice. Many students ask us what skills a nurse needs to succeed in global health or what a career in the field looks like as a global health nurse. This event gave nurses a chance to meet other nurses who have that experience. The Center for Global Health Nursing aims to achieve global health equity and knows the impact nurses have on reaching this goal through clinical care and policy work.

The event started with remarks from Sarah Gimbel, co-director of the CGHN and Associate Professor at the UW School of Nursing (SON). Then transitioned to a video in which the panelists introduced themselves and their work. (Meet our panel here!) This was followed by a Q&A session moderated by Jillian Pintye, consulting faculty for the CGHN and Assistant Professor at the UW SON. Also present were three organizations or programs that currently have positions in global or rural health. They each hosted breakout sessions to provide more information about their programs and discuss ways to prepare your skill set for global health work.

In all, the afternoon was very informative and inspiring as the nurse panelists shared their enthusiasm for health equity globally and locally.  Thank you to our nurse panelists: Krysta Byrnes, Elizabeth Karman, Kiesha Garcia-Stubbs, and Oneda Harris. Also, thank you to the organizations that provided information about their programs: UW Peace Corps, SEED Global Health and the UW Global Rural Health Fellowship for FNPs.

If you missed it, watch the panel event here!

Resources

US Peace Corps
SEED Global Health
UW Global Rural Health Fellowship for FNPs

Global Month 2019

On November 14th, multiple departments came together to hear Sheila Davis speak about the growth of Partners in Health over the past 30 years. The event started with poster presentations from students engaged in global health projects over the past year. Andrea Shelton (DNP-Midwifery), Hannah Bridgeland (DNP-FNP), Nicole Bayard (DNP-FNP), Marissa Masihdas (DNP-FNP), Rikki Peck (DNP-FNP), and Haylea Hannah (PHD Candidate – Public Health) all presented about their work in Peru, Nepal, Cambodia and Japan.

Sarah Gimbel, Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Nursing had a chance to introduce the School of Nursing and its commitment to the year of the nurse and midwife as presented by Nursing Now. She was pleased to welcome Karin Huster, an alumnus of the UW School of Nursing, who now works for Médecins sans Frontiers as a site coordinator and has worked closely with our keynote speaker, Sheila Davis.

Sheila Davis, CEO of Partners in Health, took the stage to discuss Partners in Health after 30 years and how the role of the nurse is important in the organization’s mission and in the overarching goal of global health equity. Sheila took the audience on a trip through her nursing career which has led her to become the CEO, how the organization is embracing her perspective as a nurse and the steps nurses must take in the future in order to care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

The Center for Global Health Nursing wants to thank the UW School of Nursing, the Population Health Initiative, I-TECH, and the Department of Global Health for helping sponsor this event.

CEO of Partners in Health, Sheila Davis, to Visit UW

 

November 14th, 2019  at HUB 250
Poster viewing 2:30 – 3 pm, Presentation 3 – 4 pm

 

Picture of CEO of Partners in Health, Sheila Davis

Dr. Sheila Davis is the Chief Executive Officer at Partners In Health (PIH). Previously, she served as Chief of Clinical Operations and as Chief Nursing Officer, where she oversaw nursing efforts as well as supply chain, medical informatics, laboratory, infrastructure, and quality improvement activities. Starting in 2014, she served as the Chief of Ebola Response as she led PIH’s response efforts during the West Africa epidemic.  She has been a nursing leader in the field of HIV/AIDS since the mid-1980s and served on the National Board of the Association of Nurses AIDS Care (ANAC).  She entered the global health arena in 1999 responding to the global HIV pandemic working in a number of countries. She was the co-founder of a small NGO that worked in South Africa and Boston from 2004-2010 on health projects, including a rural village nurse clinic. Dr. Davis is a frequent national speaker on global health and clinical topics including HIV/AIDS, the Ebola epidemic, leadership in public health, and the role of nursing in human rights.

Dr. Davis received her BSN degree from Northeastern University in 1988, her Masters in Nursing degree as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in 1997 and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with a concentration in global health in 2008. Both of her graduate degrees are from the MGH Institute of Health Professions.  Dr. Davis was a faculty member at the School of Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions for 4 years and an Adult Nurse Practitioner at the MGH Infectious Diseases outpatient practice for over 15 years. Currently, she is Adjunct faculty at the UCSF School of Nursing and an affiliate member of Ariadne Labs. She was inducted as Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2008 and in 2009 was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of 12 Carl Wilken’s Fellows working on anti-genocide global efforts as part of the Genocide Intervention Network.

Dr. Davis will join the Center for Global Health Nursing as part of UW Global Month, a university-wide initiative to highlight UW’s global impact, networks, and community. She will be speaking on the importance of advocating for nursing in global health with real-life cases from her work with PIH and will talk about the evolution of the organization. The event will also highlight student nurses and the global impact they have made while at the UW.

This is an event you don’t want to miss!

A huge thank you to our partners who supported the Center for Global Health Nursing for this event: I-TECH, UW Population Health Initiative and the UW Department of Global Health. 

 

Kathy McCarty Visits From Chidamoyo

Kathy McCarty Headshot

The Center for Global Health Nursing and the School of Nursing are pleased to welcome Kathy McCarty as she visits University of Washington School of Nursing on September 12th and 13th.  She will be speaking about “Practicing Health Care in a Rural Zimbabwean Setting” at 11 am – 12 pm on Thursday September 12th in HSB T661, immediately following her presentation she will welcome an open forum brown bag session where attendees can sit down with her.

Kathy McCarty is a long-term advanced practice nurse in Zimbabwe, at Chidamoyo Hospital, Ms. McCarty got her credentials and started her nursing practice in California.  Ms. McCarty was motivated into pursuing a nursing career after a visit to Zimbabwe in the mid-70s—where she realized acquiring nursing skills could help her contribute to care provision in settings such as Zimbabwe.  Kathy has been practicing in Chidamoyo—a rural hospital near Karoi, Zimbabwe, since 1991.  As the Sister-in-Charge at Chidamoyo, Kathy has many responsibilities besides administrative tasks and clinical care, such as supervising all nursing staff in the hospital, and in their outreach clinics.  Kathy has also housed and mentored hundreds of Zimbabwean and international students who are interested in a variety of health careers including nursing, medicine, physical therapy, physicians’ assistants, and lab scientists.  Under her direction, Chidamoyo serves as a research site for many collaborative research projects related to improving HIV care among children, teens, and adults.  In addition, Chidamoyo served as a site for an implementation science project examining how to incorporate HPV self-sampling among women in the community and HPV testing in the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer. She maintains a blog about her experiences at Chidamoyo which you can check out here. You can also read more about her research about HPV testing here

If you are interested in supporting Chidamoyo Hospital in Zimbabwe, the local chapter of Friends of Chidamoyo is hosting a benefit auction on September 7th, 2019. Event information and tickets for the auction are still available here.

Brown Bag Seminar – May 14

 

 

Join the Center for Global Health Nursing by welcoming Weichao Yuwen and Visiting Scholar Wenzhe Hua as they speak on the topic of “Challenges and Opportunities in Parent Engagement in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in China”.

Weichao Yuwen teaches and conducts research in using technologies to promote sleep health and family health in children with chronic conditions. She is also collaborating with several hospitals and schools of nursing in China to promote family-centered care in pediatric hospital units. Weichao is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Sleep Research Society, and a founding member of the Pacific-Northwest Chinese Nurses Association.