Date & Time
- DATES: OCT 24 | NOV 28 | JAN 9 | FEB 13 | MAR 12 | APR 9 | MAY 7 | MAY 21
- Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Time
- Location: VIRTUAL (ZOOM WEBINAR)
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Participants at a minimum of 50% of sessions will receive a certificate of attendance from CIFAL York
BACKGROUND
The world’s nurses have been enduring ceaseless challenges from the overwhelmed health care system—resulting in burn-out. This was further exacerbated by the most recent COVID-19 pandemic that strained the front-line nurses worldwide. Even as nurses have been appreciated and widely trusted for this service—their public voices are still rarely heard. The absence of nursing’s voice contributes to the fact that nurses continue to be undervalued.
This ‘Nurses’ Voices Speakers’ Series’ will continue our innovative global multi-media outreach to prepare and engage nurses, including students and retirees, to become empowered leading public storytellers and to share their stories of advocating for healing, resilience, and collaboration for a healthy world—as thought-leaders across the global public space and to the listening ears of everyone!
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
The key goals and objectives of the speaker series are to:
- To provide a platform for sharing knowledge and experiences related to nursing and nursing’s public image and voice—across all six WHO Regions and representing many nursing clinical areas of practice, including public health.
- To create a leading community of influencers, practitioners, researchers, and educators who are interested in nursing and improving nursing’s public image and voice.
- To increase awareness of and commitment to the Nightingale Declaration to Achieve a Healthy World (available in 13 language versions) as our strategy for establishing NIGH’s global community and, thus, to strengthen NIGH’s capacity to bring grassroots-to-global feedback through our UN ECOSOC ‘Special Consultative Status.’
- To provide attendees with practical information and tools that they can use in their own work related to nursing’s public image and voice.
- To promote nurses, nursing, and nursing’s public image—across all six WHO Regions—by highlighting leading success stories and best practices.
- To foster collaboration and networking among attendees, speakers, and stakeholders.
- To stay up-to-date with the latest research, developments and trends in nursing’s public image and voices.
- To provide attendees with an opportunity to access and provide feedback on Virtual Technical applications developed and established at CIFAL York.
- To embed a study of the transcripts from this ‘Speakers’ Series’ to determine relevant themes and to publish related results in a published format to be determined.
TARGET AUDIENCES
- Nursing Education Professionals, Researchers, and Students
- Nursing Clinical Practice Professionals, Researchers, and Students
- Public Health Nursing Professionals, Researchers, and Students
- Professionals, Researchers, and Students in relevant academic fields
- Non-governmental and intergovernmental professionals in related fields
- Political, Religious, and Social Leaders
- National, State, and Provincial Health Ministers
- United Nations Representatives
- Doctors
- Caregivers
- Policy Makers
SESSION 1 TUESDAY OCTOBER 24 12:00PM-1:00PM (EDT)
Nurses' Voices: Grassroots to Global
Moderator: Dr. Deva-Marie Beck
International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health
Moderator: Dr. Barbara Dossey
International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health
Speaker: Dr. Pamela F. Cipriano
President, International Council of Nurses; Professor, School of Nursing and Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, University of Virginia
Speaker: Kathleen McCourt CBE
President, Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation (CNMF)
Speaker: Dr. Gloria Chan
Vice President, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI); 1st UN/NGO Youth Representative, NIGH, United Nations, New York
Panelist: Cyril Ritchie
First Vice President, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO); Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Board of Directors
Panelist: Lynne Chase
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Board of Directors
Recording of session 1
SESSION 2 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28 12:00PM-1:30PM (EST)
Nurses' Voices from the Western Hemisphere
Moderator: Dr. Deva-Marie Beck
International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health
Moderator: Dr. Cheryl van Daalen-Smith
Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University; Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Advisory Council
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Donna Nickitas
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing-Camden, Rutgers University
Panelist: Rosemarie L. Josey
Vice President, Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation (CNMF); Nursing Officer, Public Hospitals' Authority, Bahamas
Panelist: Dr. Jose Castillo, III
Professor, School of Health Professions, Texas Wesleyan University; Area Director, National Council of State Boards of Nursing; Chair, Florida Board of Nursing
Panelist: Dr. Caroline Ortiz
Faculty, Pacific College of Health & Science; National Association of Hispanic Nurses, New York Chapter & Integrative Health Project's Work in Guatemala; Representative, International Nurse Coach Association & Curanderismo Apprentice
Panelist: Dr. Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes
Coordinator, IberoAmerican Network of Nursing Editors in Portuguese, Spanish, and English; Emerita Professor, Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing, University of São Paulo; Portuguese Language Advisor, NIGH Advisory Council
Panelist: Sharon Taylor
Retired Nurse Manager, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
Recording of session 2
SESSION 3 TUESDAY JANUARY 9 12:00PM-1:30PM (EST)
Nurses' Voices from Africa
Moderator: Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo
President, Ghana Registered Nurses & Midwives Association
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sheila Tlou
Former Health Minister, Botswana; Ardent Advocate for Human Resources for Health; Distinguished Nursing Visionary and Champion
Panelist: Dr. Edna Tallam-Kimaiyo
CEO & Registrar, Nursing Council of Kenya
Panelist: Dr. Fhumalani Mavis Mulaudzi
South African Research Chair: Ubuntu Community Model of Nursing; Professor of Nursing, Pretoria University; Deputy President of the Democratic Nurses Association of South Africa (DENOSA); Champion of Research Capacity Development and Transformation (2023), National Research Foundations Awards, South Africa
Panelist: Kenneth Kenechukwu Maduka
Certified Health & Wellness Practitioner in Private Practice; Representing the International Nurse Coach Association (INCA) in Nigeria
SESSION 4 TUESDAY FEBRUARY 13 9:00AM-10:30AM (EST)
Nurses' Voices from the Western Pacific
Moderator: Dr. Maria Theresa "Tess" Panizales
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Board of Directors & Tagalog/Filipino Language Advisor
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Iro
Former Chief Nursing Officer (2018-2022), World Health Organization
Panelist: Dr. Pearl Ed G Cuevas
Graduate Nursing Professor, Centro Escolar University, Manila, Philippines
Panelist: Megumi Teshima
Board of Directors Representative from Japan / International Council of Nurses; Professor, Cultural Development for Nursing, Department of Nursing Policy and Management, Chiba University
Panelist: Dr. Nelia Silloriquez
Professor of Nursing & Media/Communications, West Visayas State University, Philippines
Panelist: Jill Iliffe
Executive Director, Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation, Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
SESSION 5 TUESDAY MARCH 12 9:00AM-10:30AM (EDT)
Nurses' Voices from Southeast Asia
Moderator: Dr. Phalakshi Manjrekar
Nightingale Initiative of Global Health Board of Directors; Director of Nurses, PD Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre, India
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Deepika Cecil Khakha
Nursing Advisor, Indian Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Panelist Dr. Ramesh Venkatesa Perumal
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Coordinator, Internationally Educated BScN Program, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University
Panelist: TBD
SESSION 6 TUESDAY APRIL 9 12:00PM-1:30PM (EDT)
Nurses' Voices from the Middle East
Moderator : Dr. Rowaida Al-Maaitah
Consultant for HRH Princess Muna Al-Hussein; Former Senator in the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament; Former Minister of Jordanian Higher Education & Scientific Research; Minister of Jordanian Government Performance; Minister of Jordanian Social Development; Board Member, Jordanian Nursing Council; Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University for Science and Technology
Panelist : TBD
Panelist: TBD
SESSION 7 TUESDAY MAY 7 12:00PM-1:30PM (EDT)
Nurses' Voices from Europe
Moderator : Dr. Ilya Kagan
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Board of Directors; Dean, Department of Nursing, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel
Keynote Speaker : Dr. Paul De Raeve
Secretary General of the European Federation of Nurses Associations focused on the promotion and protection of nurses and the nursing profession
Panelist : Stephen G. Wright
Course Director, Kentigern School; Resident Spiritual Director & Trustee, The Sacred Space Foundation
Panelist: TBD
SESSION 8 TUESDAY MAY 21 12:00PM-1:30PM (EDT)
Moderator: TBD
Panelist : TBD
Panelist: TBD
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Organizer & Partner
Organizer
CIFAL York is part of UNITAR's global network of training centres for knowledge-sharing, training, and capacity-building for public and private leaders, local authorities, and civil society. CIFAL Centres are local and regional hubs for innovative, participatory and co-creative knowledge exchange opportunities to support decision-making processes, build capacity, and accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals. Established in 2020, CIFAL York started its operation in June 2021 as the first CIFAL Centre in Canada. Health and Development training and knowledge sharing is among the key focusing areas of CIFAL York.
For more information or questions please contact: cifaldirector@yorku.ca
Co-Organizer
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health
With the global health challenges humanity is facing—including the severe and growing worldwide nursing shortage—teams at the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) have developed a catalytic, grassroots-to-global movement and community to: 1) promote global health; 2) engage nurses and concerned stakeholders in public advocacy; and 3) promote self-care.
Since our founding in 2006—and through our ongoing grassroots-to-global development—NIGH’s teams reflect the voices of nurses, midwives, teachers, and interdisciplinary groups of concerned citizens throughout the world. Our strategies have included: advocacy campaigns to reach UN Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals; online global outreach and multi-media; keynote addresses, workshops and related conference briefings, virtual and onsite discussions and meetings convened in 35 countries: plus 38 peer-reviewed journal articles and textbook chapters—and from UN Headquarters in New York and the World Health Organization in Geneva. Since 2018, we have further integrated these strategies into our ‘UN ECOSOC Special Consultative Status’— through collaborative discussions / planning with representatives from related United Nations organizations, UNITAR, the World Health Organization, and related United Nations NGOs.
