Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World >>>
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Our Latest Partnership Projects
Planetary Health!
Our First Virtual Global Conference for Nurses & Midwives 
Featuring 90+ leading Nurses & Midwives from 30 nations across the world !
Join Us on Tuesday April 21st &
​Friday 24th of Earth Week 2026
Registration is Easy &
​Affordable Everywhere >>>
Planetary Health is the understanding that human health and the health of Earth's natural systems are deeply interconnected. In simple terms: when the planet is sick, people get sick.
             For  nurses and midwives, recognizing this connection means understanding that climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem disruption directly impact the patients and communities we serve.
Our Collaborating Co-Sponsors
Canadian African Maternal
Newborn Health Association (CAMNHA)
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Our African team at their August 2025 launch in Kampala Uganda.
Across the world, 6,500 newborns and 800 pregnant women die every day from preventable causes. These ongoing global 
tragedies need advocacy to keep humanity committed to concern for the mothers, babies, midwives and nurses facing this challenge. Thus, NIGH announces our new partnership with CAMNHA — the ​Canadian African Maternal Newborn Health Association. CAMNHA's mission is to develop and ​establish robust, multi-factorial programs in African and Canadian regions —where the lives of mothers and their infants continue at risk—through exchanges in education, advocacy and culture with the collaboration of related experts, advisors and stakeholders.  NIGH's role will be to strengthen the advocacy of Midwives, Nurses and everyone for this significant cause. 
Three Music Videos to Celebrate Nurses
Crafted by our growing team of artistic collaborators to commemorate nurses 
​and  to appreciate their caring, compassion and commitment to the health of all humanity!
Still Available!
Student Nurses’ Voices Speakers Series >>>
72 Leading Student Nurses from all six WHO Regions
Nurses’ Voices Speaker Series >>>
50 Leading Nurses from all six WHO Regions 
Continuing our 'Nurses' Voices Grassroots to Global' campaign....
Beginning in July 2023
Virtual Launch by
12 Nursing Leaders from 12 nations >>>
Featuring Dr. Amelia Tuipulotu, WHO's Chief Nursing Officer—seen here on the left—we've launched our 'Nurses' Voices' Campaign as highlighted here >>>
Please watch this video to learn more.
Granted 'Special Consultative Status' with the
​United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) in 2018.
Learn more here >>>
Keenly relevant to our times...
​yet we have yet to share what we know....
​More than ever before, we are all impacted by the health of everyone else around the world. Yet, most critical global health issues are still under-reported, under-valued and poorly understood. Although nurses and midwives  have important knowledge, experience and wisdom, we have yet to effectively share what we know with the general public — with the global community.

Nurses and midwives are the world’s largest healthcare workforce — 80% of healthcare delivery globally. The International Council of Nurses — a federation of national nursing associations from 132 out of 193 UN Member States — counts the numbers of nurses as 
​at least 29 million strong.  Nurses are consistently named the most trusted of professionals. 
What better voices to call for what needs to happen—for the sake of humanity's health at local, regional and global levels?
​​​We can focus our collective callings — for the sake of 21st century health care and for related social, ecological and human rights issues. While we continue the practices we have already established — we can also be innovative and create new practice arenas. We can model our global advocacy — the fulfillment and satisfaction of being nurses —  inspired to continue bringing health and healing to our world.
Nightingale passed this vision on to us — to remember who we are, what we can do, who we care for and why — and then — to share her vision, as she did, with our world.

If you would like to explore how you can collaborate with us in your region, you are always welcome to contact us.
Image Credits:
Header Inage #1 Compiled from NIGH Archives
Header #2  Used with appreciation to: https://www.freepik.com/author/motoviurii
Header Image #3 Used with appreciation to: 
https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-sky-with-white-sun-zjoydJb17mE\
& https://www.un.org/en/file/24359
Header Image # 4 Used with appreciation to: https://wallpaperaccess.com/earth-horizon
Nurse from Wikimedia Commons / Nightingale's face from NIGH Archives
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