NVSS Session 7

‘Nurses’ Voices into the Future’

Session Seven of the worldwide 'Nurses' Voices Speaker Series'

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This Session Seven is featured from our Nurses’ Voices Speaker Series—an innovative global multi-media outreach of eight Sessions broadcasted from across the world. Noting that INFLUENCE is the watchword of Dr. Pamela Cipriano—the 2021-2025 President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)—this Series aims is to prepare and engage nurses—including students and retirees—to become inspired and informative thought-leaders across the global public space—to influence the listening ears of everyone!

Created to feature the World Health Organization (WHO) and the six WHO Regions across the world, Session Seven was broadcasted virtually on June 11th, 2024 and co-hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR), UNITAR's CIFAL York Centre for training at York University in Toronto, Canada, and the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health--featuring leading voices from Bahrain, Botswana, Canada, India, South Korea, Switzerland, the Kingdom of Tonga, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This Series and Session are also co-sponsored by the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy (INCA) and the Global Academy of Holistic Nursing (GAHN).

Presenters’ Bios

CO-MODERATOR Starting at minute 1:55 and throughout the Session

Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, DTM, HSGAHN

Across the 25-year development of NIGH, Dr. Beck has traveled to and /or met with nursing and midwifery leaders from more than 60 nations, including with related leaders affiliated with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Council of Nurses, and the Commonwealth Nurses & Midwives Federation. She is a Canadian American nurse, global citizen, and award-winning Nightingale scholar. For 20 years, she has served as a volunteer International Co-Director for the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH)— leading workshops,

keynotes, webinars, feature articles, videos, UN briefings, and to achieve NIGH’s UN ECOSOC ‘Special Consultative Status.’ After a 30-year clinical career in Critical Care & Women's Health settings, she received her doctorate in 2002, from Union Institute & University, for her groundbreaking research to articulate Florence Nightingale’s relevance to today’s international health, development, education, and media. She has since authored and co-authored articles for numerous peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. Dr. Beck has recently achieved the highest-level education Award from Toastmasters International — as a Distinguished Toast Master ‘DTM’. She now aims to use this ‘credential’ to develop innovative ways to encourage and engage nurses and concerned citizens to share their voices and tell their stories in the global public arena.

OPENING REMARKS Starting at minute 3:29

Dame Anne Marie Rafftery, PhD, RN. FAAN
Representative of the WHO EURO Region for this Session, Dame Anne Marie Rafferty was
awarded this title — equivalent to the knighthood awarded to men — by Queen Elizabeth during the 2020 WHO International Year of the Nurse & Midiwife and presented to acknowledge her distinguished service and achievements. She is a Professor of Nursing Policy, former Dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative

Care at King’s College London, and the Founding Director and President of the European Nursing Research Foundation. Dame Rafferty is a historian, educator, and health workforce and policy researcher who has also been awarded fellowships from the Royal College of Nursing, the Queens Institute, and American Academy of Nursing. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 2019 and a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020. She is also a Fellow of King's College London where she has been the professor of nursing policy since 2004. She has co-led a Student Commission on the Future of the NHS supported by NHS England and was a member of the Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales which was reported in 2018. She was also elected President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019-21 and has been the recipient of various awards; including the Nursing Times Leadership Award in 2014 and Health Services Journal Top 100 Clinical Leaders Award in 2015 and was inducted onto the Sigma Theta Tau International Hall of Fame in 2016. Dame Rafferty graduated from Edinburgh University in Nursing Studies; obtained her MPhil (Surgery) from Nottingham University; and was the first nurse to gain a doctorate (DPhil Modern History) from Oxford University.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Starting at minute 20:10
Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu, PhD, RN
Dr. Tuipulotu is the World Health Organization Chief Nursing Officer. She is formerly the Kingdom of Tonga’s Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) between 2014 and 2019, who also served as its first female Minister for Health between 2019 and 2021. Since 2019, she has been an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. And, in 2020, she was appointed as a member of the WHO Executive Board and WHO Executive Board Rapporteur.
As Health Minister for her nation, she responded to a Measles outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic. For both emergencies, there were no reported deaths during her leadership tenure.

She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2012, where she also received the Professional Achievement Alumni award in 2014 and was named Professor on February 7, 2023. She is the first Tongan to receive a PhD in Nursing. Her doctoral work informed the development of the Tonga National Professional Standards for the Registered Nurse which guide both nursing education and practice and is mandated within her nation’s Nurse Practioners and Midwives Act 2021.
Dr. Tuipulotu’s particular research interests focus on professional standards issues and nursing and health care delivery. She has led the development of numerous projects including: a patient satisfaction system, strategic directions, career pathways, a policy and procedural manual, a code of ethics, a regulation system, a visionary leadership programme, a model of care, clinical review and productivity, research alliance, young future leaders, and a performance management system, as well as annual planning, reading clubs, and nurses’ satisfaction survey.
In 2021, Dr. Tuipulotu was decorated with the Knight Grand Cross: Royal Order of the Crown of the Kingdom of Tonga by His Majesty King Tupou VI. She has served as a member of the WHO Executive Board (EB) and served as WHO EB Rapporteur in 2020. She has also been awarded with the Prime Minister Excellent Establishment Award, the International Women Leadership Award, and the Police Medal Award & Patronage. In 2024, she also received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
As WHO’s current Chief Nursing Officer, she is committed to championing and supporting the world’s largest health and care workforce — nurses and midwives — to transform health systems, to promote health and well-being, to keep the world safe, to promote gender equity, and to serve the vulnerable.

SPEAKERS representative of World Health Organization Regions...

Doreen Harper, PhD, RN, FAAN Starting at minute 28:17
Representative of WHO PAHO (AMRO) Region for this Session, Dr. Harper is the recently retired Emerita Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. During her time as Dean, she was also the Fay B. Ireland Endowed Chair in Nursing and served as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) World Health Organization Collaborating Center on International Nursing at UAB — one of ten centers in the United States that focus on nursing education to improve the care for children and families through global outreach.

Throughout her academic career as a nurse practitioner, Dr. Harper worked tirelessly to advance health care quality and equity, and to advocate for nursing leadership, excellence and advanced practice through the preparation of highly educated diverse nurses. Her laser vision on developing and testing sustainable models of care — to serve the neediest communities that are often overlooked by the health care delivery system — distinguishes. the UAB School of Nursing among others. Since becoming Dean in 2005, her tenure has been marked by a drive to propel the school forward in its impact — not only throughout Alabama but globally — by strategically investing in people and programs, and garnering widespread support from the community. Notably, Dr. Harper led the development of a comprehensive strategic plan that laid the foundation for not only a historic building campaign, but also for substantial growth in the school’s endowment funding for student scholarships, faculty recruitment, and program support.

Hyeongkyeong Lee, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN Starting at minute 40:19
Representative of the WHO WPRO Region for this Session, Dr. Lee is currently serves in three roles at the Yonsei University College of Nursing in Seoul, Korea — as Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center; as Director of the International Nursing Education Center; and as Professor in Community Health Nursing and Global Health. She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing and as an Editorial board member of

the Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing; the Korean Nurses Political Society; and the Global Korean Nursing Foundation. She also serves as a Committee Member of the ‘CUGH Global Health Competency’ that has been instrumental in defining competencies for global health education and professional development, as well as exploring ongoing conversations and controversies around global health competencies and careers. Dr. Lee has been a Principal Investigator of a number of funded research grants, including for the study of “Infectious Disease Prevention Behavior in the Community” from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. For her achievements, she was awarded as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2020. Dr. Lee achieved her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, and her Masters and Bachelors in Nursing Science from the Yonsei University College of Nursing.

Nhabiseng A. Phaladze, PhD, MScN, BEd Nursing, RN Starting at minute 49:37

Representative of the WHO AFRO Region for this Sesssion, Dr. Phaladze is a Professor of Nursing and former Head of Nursing and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Development at the University of Botswana. She obtained her Bachelor on Nursing Education from the University of Botswana, and her Master of Nursing Science and PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr Phaladze’s research and scholarship has been focused on HIV and AIDS across different populations, as well as other

health care issues such health policy, human resources for health and gender issues — expanded to include neglected tropical diseases, mainly schistosomiasis. She is a member of several professional organizations such as Botswana Nurses Union, Sigma Theta Tau, Africa Honor Society, AFREhealth; and has served on several national advisory boards. She is an accomplished academic with many supervised research projects, four books, six chapters, 37 referred publications and many conference presentations . She has long served Botswana University and other universities and continues to provide active service to community and governance-social engagement in Botswana and across the African continent.

Phalakhi Manjrekar, PhD, MScN, RN Starting at minute 1:06:37

Representative of the WHO SEARO Region for this Session, Dr. Manjrekar is the distinguished Director of Nursing and Member of the Board of Managers (Trustees) at the P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, a major healthcare delivery provider that has, since its founding in the 1950s, served more than 13 million patients in Mumbai, India. In these roles, she is responsible for the oversight and professional development of 700 staff directly under her charge — including nurses practicing in both hospital and clinic setting settings, and most particularly, those working to ensure the optimal health of mothers, infants and young children.

She also reports that she is challenged by the continual recruitment of Indiannurses to other places in the world — including to identify ways to motivate and retain them to remain in Mumbai and in India. To address the multiple concerns of nurses and nursing educators across India — and indeed across her region — Dr. Manjrekar has conferred with global and regional nursing leaders in Canada, Great Britain, and from across the Commonwealth, — as well as in Switzerland and in India — where she has attended World Health Organization and International Council of Nurses briefings in Geneva and at WHO SEARO in New Delhi. Since 2011, she has served on NIGH's Board of Directors and oversees the development of NIGH's presence in India and her region. In this role, she presented an extensive video “Nurses Reaching Out to the Masses: The Indian Scenario” to the 2015 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and recently served as Moderator of Session Five of the Nurses' Voices Speaker Series — 'Nurses' Voices from Southeast Asia.'

Naeema Al-Gasseer, PhD, DSCi (Hons), RN, FAAN Starting at minute 1:19:38
Representative fo the WHO EMRO Region for this Session — and with more than 35 years of experience at global and regional levels — Dr Al-Gasseer has served at the World Health Organization for 25 years. She is the immediate former World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Egypt and was formerly the Senior Adviser to Office of the Regional Director, and the WHO Representative in Sudan. Dr Al-Gasseer joined WHO in 1999 as Senior Scientist for Nursing and Midwifery (Chief Nurse / Midwife) in Geneva — responsible for the coordination and

integration of nursing and midwifery issues in the work of WHO policy and programmes. She later served as the WHO Representative in Iraq, before being reassigned to the post of Assistant Regional Director in 2010, where she focused on strengthening health systems based on research and evidence. Prior to joining WHO, she was Regional Advisor for Reproductive Health & Family Planning at UNFPA from 1996, where she conducted health system assessments, including reproductive health situation analysis in countries of the Middle East. From 1992 until 1996, she worked at the Bahrain Ministry of Health planning unit on developing their strategy for health. She was also active at national level in preparing documents for the United Nations and WHO on progress made in relation to resolutions on health and development. Dr Al-Gasseer graduated with an Associate Degree in Nursing from Bahrain in 1978 and obtained a Doctorate in Nursing Sciences in the area of women’s health from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1990. She is the first Arab to receive an honorary award of Doctorate of Science (DSci) from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland and received an American Academy of Nursing Fellowship in 2010. Across her career, Dr Al-Gasseer has been involved with health system assessment, quality of health care programmes and developing health strategy.

CLOSING CO-MODERATOR

Cyril Ritchie starting at minutes: 1:45;21 and 2:01;01

Mr. Ritchie serves on the Board of Directors for the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) and as NIGH's United Nations NGO Representative in Geneva—supporting a growing team to bring the voices of nurses and midwives into the global dialogue and the United Nations NGO community—from his decades of experience and leadership. In 2018, Mr. Ritchie was re-elected First Vice-President of CoNGO—the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations. Prior to this, he served for two terms as President starting in 2011—before serving for 40 years and five separate terms as

Secretary of the CoNGO Conference and Board and First Vice President. Mr. Ritchie has participated in many United Nations Summits and World Conferences, including for Food, Environment, Women, Habitat, Nutrition, Social Development Information and for Sustainable Development. He frequently attends United Nations Economic & Social Council Commissions and sessions of other United Nations organs. For the Union of International A ssociations (UIA), Mr. Ritchie has served as President since 2017 and Vice President between 1998 and 2016. Based in Bruxelles, UIA is the publisher of the Yearbook of International Organizations, and of the International Conference Calendar. Mr. Ritchie has also served as President of the 2006 International Civil Society Forum for Democracy, held in Doha, Qatar. From 2000 to 2008, he served as President of the Council of Europe INGO Grouping “Civil society and democracy in Europe” and from 2008 to 2018 as President of the Expert Council on NGO Law. He has also served 14 years as Executive Director of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) and was Chair of the 1999 World Civil Society Conference (WOCSOC) in Montreal. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Ritchie was Chair of the Board of Advisors of the World Future Council, and is now Senior Policy Advisor to the WFC, based in Hamburg. Since 1979, Mr. Ritchie has been named a Titular of the World Order of the Smile.

Also Presenting Two NIGH Multi-Media Projects — related to this Session

Setting the stage for this Session at minute 11:49...

and for our Traditional Closing at 1:40:31

Serving as NIGH's credo since its founding in the early 2000s, the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World is now available in 14 language versions and distinguished collaborators—with many more versions anticipated.

To vividly remember Florence Nightingale’s timeless ideas and relevance, we offer this music video of profound insights, vivid graphics and evocative music. The celebrated images have been gathered from International Photoshare and related sources, with inspired music from ‘Scheherazade’ whose melodies sing her passionate and courageous voice for human rights, well-being, and for life itself. For detailed image and music credits, click here >>>