Through a Global Health Faculty Scholars’ Community of Practice, School of Nursing Faculty Scholars will learn together, exchange and challenge ideas, and collaborate with faculty from partner schools of nursing on research, practice or education-focused projects. The Global Health Faculty Scholars Program supports the advancement of global health through meaningful partnerships around the world.
Global Scholars' Strategies for Successful Global Research
School of Nursing global health faculty scholars share about their projects and highlight strategies for successful partnerships with colleagues around the globe.
Global Health Faculty Scholars 2023
Joanne Donnelly
DNP, APRN, CRNA
Priority:
• Expanding work with the Iceland Nurse Anesthesia clinical training and education program
Stephanie Gingerich
DNP, RN, CPN
Priorities:
• Partnering with Cuba to develop additional multilingual publications
• Partnering with Iceland - continued global learnings for students about different
systems of healthcare
Olof Indridadottir
DNP, AHN-BC, CRRN
Priority:
• Building relationships with Icelandic colleagues to address rehabilitation care and holistic health assessments
Dorcas Kunkel
DNP, RN/PHN, CNE, CPHIMS, CDIP
Priority:
• Engaging with diverse local, national, and global initiatives to improve nursing data globally
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
PhD, RN, FAAN
Priorities
• Ongoing data collection efforts with partners in Malawi
• Establishing a program of research in the Minnesota area with Black and American Indian women
Huong Nguyen
PhD, MSW, MA
Priorities:
• Pursuing joint grant funding with UMN and Vietnamese colleagues
• Fostering a new relationship with Japanese colleagues, including their site visit to the US in Spring 2024
Articles
A national program to advance dementia research in Vietnam
A guide to mental health in Vietnamese
Carolyn Porta
PhD, MPH, RN SANE-A, FAAN, FNAP
Priorities:
• Fostering relationships between institutions to advance nursing research and best practices
• Providing resources and consultation to colleagues establishing forensic nursing
practice in their countries
Global Health Faculty Scholars 2022
Dr. Lisa Martin Rennicke
PhD, RN, PHN, AHN-BC, FAAN
Project Summary
Scoping review of the literature/state of science on global Indigenization research and its application to nursing curricula.
Partners
University of British Columbia
First Nations House of Learning
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Global Health Faculty Scholars 2021
Dr. Cynthia Bradley
PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE
Priority:
• Implementing a simulation education advancement project with University of
Nairobi
Dr. Nasra H. Giama
DNP, RN, PHN
Project summary
Continuing nursing education, enhancing access to evidence-based practice resources, strengthening public health nursing practice, and improving knowledge and skills in research methodology.
Partners
University of Hargeisa school of nursing in Somalia
Priorities:
• Publishing project findings with Ugandan colleagues
• Advancing dataset analyses with Australian colleagues
Dr. Sripriya Rajamani
PhD, MPH, MBBS, FAMIA
Priorities:
• Advancing deliverables on a grant funded project with collaborators from Turkey
• Initiating another global project with colleagues from Saudi Arabia
Dr. Erica Schorr
PhD, RN, FAHA
Priorities:
• Completing data collection & analysis for collaborative research project with Thai
colleagues
• Planning global experience for nursing students to Vietnam/Thailand