Date: March 30th, 2021
Time: 4-5pm CAT, 10-11am ET

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Background: 

Nurses and midwives play a critical role not only in delivering healthcare to millions in Rwanda and Africa, but also in transforming health policies, promoting health in communities and supporting patients and families. Nurses and midwives constitute more than 50% of the health workforce in many countries and work across almost all service delivery settings. No global health agenda can be met without a concerted and sustained effort to maximize the contribution of the nursing workforce and their roles within interprofessional health teams. To do this, nursing and midwifery as professions need to be strengthened through deliberate financial investment, effective legislation, regulation, education and employment practices. There also needs to be a fundamental shift in policy at national and global levels to recognize that nurses and midwives can support the achievement of the World Health Assembly’s ambitious target of 1 billion more people benefitting from universal health coverage (UHC).

The Discussion:

UGHE’s new Center for Nursing and Midwifery is pleased to announce its upcoming Executive Education offering in “Global Leadership in Nursing and Midwifery”, a dynamic program aimed at building key executive level skills in African senior level / executive nurses and midwives. In honor of this launch, UGHE are delighted to welcome WHO’s Chief Nursing Officer to a virtual event chaired by UGHE’s Deputy Vice- Chancellor and Dean School of Medicine, Prof. Abebe Bekele, with introductory remarks by Vice Chancellor Prof. Agnes Binagwaho. The one-and-a-half hour session will explore the importance of nursing and midwifery leadership in Africa, and the need for comprehensive advanced training to support this. Elizabeth brings a unique nursing perspective to the global decision-making table, and will provide an expert lens on the role of WHO in the training in leadership for nurses and midwives.