Global health for the young professional: How to align your work with global initiatives
View File(s)
- Author(s)
- Details
-
Lindsey N. Horrell, BSN, RN; Christine M. Darling; Cynthia Vlasich
- Sigma Affiliation
- Lambda Psi
This presentation outlines a variety of initiatives that provide young professionals of all disciplines the opportunity to become involved in nursing and midwifery’s global health agenda. Presenters will provide a thorough review of the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with special emphasis on ways these goals can be implemented in one’s own practice and research at the local, regional and international levels. A variety of opportunities focused on global health through Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) will be discussed. Presenters will provide an overview of the purpose and mission of the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing & Midwifery (GAPFON), which seeks to advance nursing and midwifery’s ability to lead interdisciplinary responses to the most pressing healthcare issues facing our global society (Klopper & Hill, 2015). Findings from GAPFON’s recent listening tour held with key stakeholders across the globe will be reviewed. In addition, action plans that young professionals may participate in to advance culturally relevant efforts to achieve the SDGs by 2030 will be discussed. Information will also be shared about STTI’s special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (STTI, 2016). Information about upcoming application dates to serve as STTI UN Youth Representatives will be available. Finally, the presenters will discuss a number of institutes and grant programs available through STTI to provide both emerging and experienced healthcare leaders the resources necessary to influence policy and to improve the health outcomes of people and populations worldwide. Information will focus on the Emerging Global Leaders Institute and the STTI Global Nursing Research Grant, which was established to fund nursing research focused on addressing global health disparities. In outlining each of these programs and initiatives, presenters will provide young professionals the tools necessary to become further involved with international health initiatives and to align one’s own work with nursing and midwifery’s global health agenda.
Event Theme: Influencing Global Health Through the Advancement of Nursing Scholarship
| Type | Presentation |
| Acquisition | Proxy-submission |
| Review Type | None: Event Material, Invited Presentation |
| Format | Text-based Document |
| Evidence Level | N/A |
| Research Approach | N/A |
| Keywords | Emerging Leadership; Global Health; Young Professional |
| Name | 28th International Nursing Research Congress |
| Host | Sigma Theta Tau International |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date | 2017 |
All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.
All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.
All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subjects.
-
Using social media to enhance study recruitment: How Facebook and Twitter may engage vulnerable populations
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016 and Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: According to the United Nations Specialized Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (2015), at least 40.6% of the world ... -
Strategies to engage lower-SES, working-age adults in health research: Results from the SMART Life Study
(2017-07-27)This presentation will discuss the development, dissemination, and evaluation of recruitment materials utilized by the SMART Life Study to engage working-age adults of lower-socioeconomic status in health promotion research. ... -
Trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: A study of the relationship between the CDC and adults with chronic illness following the Ebola crisis
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: The fall of 2014 was marked by a period of panic for much of the American population. As care providers worked frantically to contain the first cases of the Ebola virus ... -
Sigma Theta Tau International Global Initiatives: A Year of Advances
The Global Initiatives department focuses on five key strategies: Global Expansion; the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery; Relationship Building; Member Engagement and Member Growth. This session ... -
GAPFON Report: Implementation planning to solidify the framework of the future
(2017-10-09)This session highlights the global results of GAPFON as noted in the report and will detail the process for implementation planning along with a targeted framework to move the identified strategies into action plans with ...
