Scholarships
April 16, 2024
CGHN Travel Scholarships Open Now!
Fieldwork and travel scholarships Applications are due by 11:59 PM PST on May 15, 2024. The Center for Global Health Nursing offers a variety of scholarships and fellowships to help support students’ fieldwork experience in global settings. You can find your own experience, or use the programs offered by the Center for Global Health Nursing…
January 19, 2024
Nursing Experiences in Peru
The UW School of Nursing’s Engagement in Iquitos, Peru: 2016 – Present The School of Nursing, has been collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of UW and Peruvian researchers in Iquitos since 2016 with support from generous donors, including the estate of Barbara Wyman. UW SON students first began coming to Iquitos as part of…
January 30, 2020
UW CGHN launches new global internship program with Omprakash
The UW Center for Global Health Nursing (CGHN) is excited to announce a new partnership with Omprakash, a Seattle-based global education nonprofit, which will increase study abroad opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate-level UW nursing students. Omprakash works with organizations around the world to create internships where they need help the most. They created the…
July 29, 2019
Blog Update: Iquitos
Andrea Shelton and I have had a busy couple of weeks here in Iquitos. Our last couple of weeks have centered around continuing the Academia Familiar del Amazonas (AFA) program started by last year’s Peru Scholars. The intention of this program is to support the women of the Claverito Community with education sessions addressing issues…
July 11, 2019
Week One with the 2019 Peru Scholars
Andrea Shelton and I arrived in Iquitos, Peru on July 1 eager to meet the Claverito community members and get to work on our projects. The weather is not nearly as hot and sticky as we expected, so we are both quite relieved about that surprise! During this first week we got a taste…
March 28, 2019
Keio University Short-Term Exchange
By: Sandra Kolberg (ABSN Student) and Jessica Lee (BSN Student) Being a part of the Nursing program at the University of Washington has provided us with some incredible opportunities. We receive constant encouragement to learn and grow through diverse experiences on campus, within the community, or even internationally. One of the experiences available to us…
