NIGH's own International Co-Director Dr. Deva-Marie Beck is highlighted on the cover and in a feature article of this June 2021 Edition of the Toastmasters International Magazine—shared worldwide with its outreach to 364,000 Members in 16,200+ Clubs based in 145 nations.

Deva-Marie is one of four health care professionals—two nurses and two doctors— interviewed. Her story  highlights the work of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) and encourages advocacy for nursing and for health through public speaking and sharing stories. 

On the left, this image—from NIGH's archives— of Dr. Deva-Marie Beck is featured in the Toastmasters article. It depicts her 2017 Presentation with ICN President Emerita Dr. Judith Shamian at the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City. 

                    by Cynthia A. Phillips with                                  Pat Donohoe, Barbara Dossey & Deva- Marie Beck

This Zoom Play takes audiences into world of nurses today and into the world of Florence Nightingale in her later years as a thought-leader, change- agent,  and the founder of modern nursing. Leveraging the latest digital technology, we'll create animation and special effects to transport you --‘Through the Looking Glass’ — into Nightingale's own memories relevant to today's COVID nursing challenges. 

To strengthen NIGH’s health advocacy mandates and appreciate our worldwide collaborations, the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World is now posted in all six official United Nations languages. With this announcement, we would like to bring appreciative KUDOS to our five distinguished Translators—all nursing and public health leaders from across the world:
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On June 5th, World Environment Day, NIGH’s Dr. Barbara Dossey was a featured presenter for a Webinar hosted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) — sharing her own story of decades at the forefront of holistic medicine and developing NIGH to increase awareness of global well-being— recently contributing to our May 12, 2020 Virtual Worldwide Meditation to benefit the world's nurses. This Webinar’s theme focused on humanity’s interconnectedness as “our most important work of the 21st century.” A highlight of the presentation was a recording of Nightingale’s own voice.

We are privileged to announce — during this awesome International Nurses' Week of the 2020 WHO 'Year of the Nurse & the Midwife' and Florence Nightingale's 200th Birthday on May 12 — a new prestigious posthumous award for Florence herself!

The Visioneers International Network has designated Florence Nightingale as a HEROINE OF HUMANITY, their top award. They note: “Her impact today remains significant in the way nurses all over the world care for us [especially] in 2020, the year of COVID and a global pandemic.”  Learn more >>>