Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, PhD, RN
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Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes is Emerita Professor at the University of São Paulo - Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing, Brazil and, serves as Coordinator of the IberoAmerican Network of Nursing Editors in Portuguese, Spanish and English. From 1994-1998 and 2002-2014, she served as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development and was thus elected for two terms as
Secretary General of Global Network of World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centres for Nursing & Midwifery Development. She has also served as Nursing Representative at the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. Beyond, Brazil, she serves as a Member of the General Board at the University of Coimbra School of Nursing in Portugal. She 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 in that nation and in Latin America and served as a Member of STTI’s International Advisory Council — GAPFON, 2013-2017. |
She is also the Co-Founder, Co-Editor and collaborator of Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, the top scientific nursing journal in Latin America. She was 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.
Since 2010, she has served as member of NIGH’s Council of Advisors, collaborating with NIGH’s Core Team to create Portuguese subtitles for the video “Nurses & Midwives: Now More Than Ever for A Healthy World,’ a 2008 co-production of NIGH and the World Health Organization to celebrate WHO’s 60th Anniversary. In 2020, she also provided the Portuguese version of the ‘Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World’ to celebrate the WHO International Year of the Nurse & Midwife during the bicentennial of Florence Nightingale's birth. In 2020, she also 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.
Nursing Ethics and a Member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Telenursing Network Advisory Group.
Since 2010, she has served as member of NIGH’s Council of Advisors, collaborating with NIGH’s Core Team to create Portuguese subtitles for the video “Nurses & Midwives: Now More Than Ever for A Healthy World,’ a 2008 co-production of NIGH and the World Health Organization to celebrate WHO’s 60th Anniversary. In 2020, she also provided the Portuguese version of the ‘Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World’ to celebrate the WHO International Year of the Nurse & Midwife during the bicentennial of Florence Nightingale's birth. In 2020, she also 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.