Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, RN, PhD
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Dr. Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes is Emerita and Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing, Brazil and, since 2008, she is Coordinator of the Nursing Now Brazil Campaign. As Director of World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research development from 1994-1998 and 2002-2017, she was elected for two terms as Secretary General of Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery development, from 2007/2014. Beyond, Brazil, Dr. Costa Mendes also serves as a Member of the General Board at the University of Coimbra School of Nursing in Portugal. She was Dean of EERP-USP for two elected terms — from 1994 to 1998, and 2002 to 2006 — and Chair of the Pan-American Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery Development — PANMCC (2003-2006). She served as Nursing Representative at the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (1996-1998 and 2002-2004).
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An idealizer, Dr. Costa Mendes is the founder of the Rho Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) in Brazil, the first chapter to be constituted (2002) in the country and in Latin America and served as a Member of STTI’s International Advisory Council — GAPFON, 2013-2017.
She is also the Co-Founder (1992), Co-Editor and collaborator of Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, the top scientific nursing journal in Latin America. In this role, she also coordinates the Ibero American Network of Nursing Editors (RedEDIT) since 2006. She is an Editorial Board Member of Nursing Ethics and Member of the International Centre for Nursing Ethics and a Member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Telenursing Network Advisory Group.
From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Costa Mendes served as Coordinator of the academic cooperation agreement between EERP-USP and the Inter-American Drugs Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States — aimed at developing research specialization programs for nurses from ten Latin-American countries.
Dr. Costa Mendes’ main research areas include Nursing Leadership, Nursing Communication and Global Health. She has published one hundred articles in important international Journals. She prepared many nurses at the Masters and PhD graduate levels in Brazil and Latin America.
In 2008, she collaborated with WHO and NIGH to achieve the Portuguese language subtitling for WHO's 60th Anniversary Video: Enfermeiras e Parteiras! Agora Mais Do Que Nunca Para um Mundo Saudável!
In 2020, she collaborated with NIGH and an international team to establish the Nurses Global Coherence 2020 with the audio creation of the Portuguese version of the ‘Virtual Worldwide Meditation’ convened at noon — across all time zones — on May 12, 2020, Florence Nightingale’s 200th Birthday.
And, in the closing days of the 2020 Nightingale Bicentenary and World Health Organization Year of the Nurse & the Midwife, she collaborated with NIGH to accomplish the Portuguese translation of the Nightingale Declaration — Declaração Nightingale por um mundo saudável.
She is also the Co-Founder (1992), Co-Editor and collaborator of Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, the top scientific nursing journal in Latin America. In this role, she also coordinates the Ibero American Network of Nursing Editors (RedEDIT) since 2006. She is an Editorial Board Member of Nursing Ethics and Member of the International Centre for Nursing Ethics and a Member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Telenursing Network Advisory Group.
From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Costa Mendes served as Coordinator of the academic cooperation agreement between EERP-USP and the Inter-American Drugs Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States — aimed at developing research specialization programs for nurses from ten Latin-American countries.
Dr. Costa Mendes’ main research areas include Nursing Leadership, Nursing Communication and Global Health. She has published one hundred articles in important international Journals. She prepared many nurses at the Masters and PhD graduate levels in Brazil and Latin America.
In 2008, she collaborated with WHO and NIGH to achieve the Portuguese language subtitling for WHO's 60th Anniversary Video: Enfermeiras e Parteiras! Agora Mais Do Que Nunca Para um Mundo Saudável!
In 2020, she collaborated with NIGH and an international team to establish the Nurses Global Coherence 2020 with the audio creation of the Portuguese version of the ‘Virtual Worldwide Meditation’ convened at noon — across all time zones — on May 12, 2020, Florence Nightingale’s 200th Birthday.
And, in the closing days of the 2020 Nightingale Bicentenary and World Health Organization Year of the Nurse & the Midwife, she collaborated with NIGH to accomplish the Portuguese translation of the Nightingale Declaration — Declaração Nightingale por um mundo saudável.