Expert Panel on Global Nursing & Health

The Expert Panel on Global Nursing and Health identifies and explores issues and trends important to global nursing and health care delivery and policy, and provides expert opinion related to global nursing and health.

Inaugural Year: 1997

Chair:
Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Vice Chair:
Michele Upvall, PhD, RN, CNE, FAAN
Professor
Barry University

Board Liaison: Karen Drenkard

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

​Previous Chairs: Karen Moore (2020-2022), Allison Squires (2019-2020), Catherine Catrambone (2018-2019), ​DeAnne Messias (2016-2017), ​Kathleen Capitulo (2015-2016), Lynn Callister (2009), Marianne Hattar (2009), Marlene M. Rosenkoetter (2003), Joan Uhl Pierce (1999-2001) 

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Recent Publications:

• Consensus Recommendations to Advance System Level Change for Nurse Well-Being (February 1, 2023)
• Consensus Paper: American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel consensus statement on the impact of COVID-19 on the US economy, education, and environment (May 2022)
• Practice Guidelines: International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access (October 2021)
• Consensus Paper: Nursing's Roles in Ensuring Universal Palliative Care Access (October 2021)
• Policy brief on the nursing response to human trafficking (July-August 2018) 
• Working with the Child, Adolescent, Family Expert Panel, Policy Brief: Support for humanitarian aid to refugee children. Nursing Outlook 64 (January 2016) 94–97.
• Policy Brief: Implementing culturally competent care. Nursing Outlook 63 (March 2015) 227–229.
• Policy Brief: Global health diplomacy: An integrative review of the literature and implications for nursing. Nursing Outlook 61 (March 2013) 85-92.
• Policy Brief: Leadership needed to address the global nursing and midwifery workforce shortage. Nursing Outlook 60 (January 2012) 51–53.
• Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care: 2011 Update. (Volume 22, No 4, 317-333, October 2011)

Resources:

• Standards for Cultural Competency

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