Global Health Program Annual Report 2021

Global Nursing
Catherine G
Winkler, PhD, MPH, APRN-BC
Director of the NH/UVMLCOM Global Health
Program Nursing Division
The division of nursing has been established within the Global Health (GH) Program to participate in
interdisciplinary learning and teaching to improve healthcare education and practice which aligns with
the academic and clinical needs of our colleagues in resource limited countries while achieving the
objectives of all contributing faculty and students.
The international nurse executive committee (INEC) represents the nursing division at Nuvance Health
and continues to engage academic and clinical staff to increase awareness of GH, to coalesce around
specified areas of academic and clinical need of our global partners and to work from a shared platform
to meet identified requirements of underserved communities.
Additionally, the nursing division is interested in beginning work and projects virtually and pivot toward
bidirectional education with international colleagues/ scholars attending the GH Academy and/or
academic classes here with site visits planned abroad with our medical associates as it is applicable.
Centered on the objectives, educators/mentors will be aligned here and abroad to efficiently develop
course and curriculum content with competencies and standards built into programming to guide new
educators in their communities and home countries.
With projects as identified by our colleagues from resource limited countries, we seek to support research
and publications providing research methods education as needed. We will encourage INEC members
to serve as faculty in the Global Health Academy and look forward to a new year that is peaceful and
ready to flourish with sustainable connections to advance Global Healthcare.
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