Video Contributions to UN CSW 2017
“We have the knowledge. We have the science. We have the people.
But somehow we don’t make the impact and that’s the issue!”
But somehow we don’t make the impact and that’s the issue!”
“Its only when the two come together — civil society and government — that we will make a difference and the world will be a better place.”
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As the 2013-2017 President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), Dr. Judith Shamian recently served on the UN High Commission on Health Employment & Economic Growth. She is also the first such nursing leader to bring ICN’s voice to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York City.
Dr. Shamian is the former President and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) and past President of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and also serves as a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She has published and spoken extensively nationally and internationally on a wide range of topics. Government departments and agencies and academic bodies — including the World Health Organization (WHO) — often call on her to speak and consult on many issues surrounding nursing, health human resources, leadership, and health-care policy. She established the first WHO Collaborating Centre for Leadership Development in a hospital environment, which brought together nurse executives — from the Caribbean, Israel, Eastern Europe and Africa — to learn more about their role in leading a facility’s nursing services. She has also been a consultant on nursing projects in Israel, China, the Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Hungary, Poland and the United States. |
“In the year 2000, we were asking what would Nightingale have done with a fax machine?
Now we are asking, what would she do with YouTube and Social Media?”
Now we are asking, what would she do with YouTube and Social Media?”
Deva-Marie Beck is a Nightingale scholar, multi-media specialist, nursing educator, author, presenter and world-wide traveler, serving — in all these roles — as International Co-Director of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH).
As NIGH’s executive coordinator and website developer, Dr. Beck is a multi-media communications strategist currently focused on the mobilization of public opinion and advocacy to increase concern for global health issues. In these roles, she develops online feature articles, videos and photo-essays — coordinating with nurses, midwives, students and media professionals alike. She is now aiming to empower and engage nurses, midwives and related students across the world to share their stories and their concerns with everybody else. Championing this ideas, Dr. Beck is developing — with NIGH's growing grassroots-to-global team — a participatory worldwide wave of media about how health and all the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals are achieved. Mobilizing public opinion to care is a critical factor in achieving a better world. |
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“Nightingale would want us to do what she did — to get the world to care what we care about!”
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Hannah Bergbower is a Nurse Educator and US Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania with 'Seed Global Health.' In this video clip, Hannah shares one of her many stories about learning how a culture — other than her own — is so compelling! As she learned of their suffering, she became certain that she could do something to help her students to make their difference.
“I realized very quickly that — in their hospitals — they have a shelf because, unfortunately, the neonatal mortality
rate is so high that they have place to put these babies.” Hannah's stories were chosen to be told at NIGH's Parallel Event during the 2017 UN Commission on the Status of
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Women because maternal and infant health is at the core of all the issues women and girls face. Click here >> to watch's Hannah's interview sharing a profound story from her work with student nurses. Click here >> to learn ,more about her work in Tanzania.
“Maternal Health is all of our problem. This was something I couldn’t turn away from.”
Here, Dr. Deva-Marie Beck shares a context for how Hannah's stories are examples of NIGH's upcoming plans to celebrate Nightingale's Bicentenary — in the year 2020 — with a robust global online platform — created to host similar videos from nurses and midwives from around the world. |
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“If we have this in place across Nightingale's Bicentenary in 2020, we will have changed the world!
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This official 2017 UN CSW Parallel Event was convened at the Salvation Army District Headquarters in New York City — which houses a theatre that allows for more people to attend than would be possible at the UN itself. Hence, on the stage backdrop is seen a key Salvation Army theme: 'Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.'
Top left photo of Dr. Shamian used with permission from the Watson Caring Science Institute. All other photos and videos from NIGH's archives.