What Has NIGH Achieved So Far?
Since NIGH’s establishment in 2004, we have achieved numerous successful campaigns, including a worldwide outreach of information — throughout nations across the globe — about achieving all eight UN MDGs during the 2010 International Year of the Nurse / Florence Nightingale Centennial. This project was a direct result of NIGH's first and continuing campaign for the 'Nightingale Declaration for a Healthy World.'
From this, we established a six-year collaboration with project partners — in India — to focus directly on nurses’ development and their capacities to impact upon the health of both rural and urban poor populations in and around Mumbai. Here, multidisciplinary students, faculty, and nurses worked, learned and cared for others together. Measurable positive patient outcomes include: reduced rural exposure to life-threatening nitrate in groundwater supplies used for drinking and mobile urban clinics operated by the Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre to serve the urban poor. Peer-reviewed research from this multidisciplinary clinical practice, academic and research partnership has been published at international meetings and other conferences.
The above photo captures related appreciation, in Mumbai, to Dr. Holly Shaw, PhD, RN — who serves in numerous roles — from Ms. Phalakshi Manjrekar, Director of Nurses & Board of Management for Hinduja Hospital — who also serves on the Executive Committee of NIGH World's Board of Directors.
This Mumbai initiative was launched in 2009 in response to the United Nations ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs), which have — as their ultimate purpose — the three pillars of reducing global poverty, chronic disease, and stalled development. NIGH engages in this initiative — focused on creating a global community of nurses — who lead in using knowledge, scholarship, service and learning — to improve the health of the world’s people through global partnerships among health care systems, nursing schools, and additional multidisciplinary partners.
NIGH teams also regularly present our work at global, regional and local conferences, in peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and with multi-media projects posted on our websites. We collaborate with colleagues at WHO and at UN Headquarters in both New York and Geneva. During the 2010 UN Millennium Goals Summit, we co-hosted — with the Congress of NGOs in Relationship with the UN — CoNGO — a concert to remember the MDGs at the Lincoln Center, including a featured solo from award-winning pianist Shun-Yang Lee and the awesome Polish-Canadian Soprano Maria Knapik, who also serves as one of NIGH World's Advisors.
NIGH's UN DPI-NGO Representatives & Youth Representatives have hosted and presented at an official Panel featured at UN International NGO Conference in 2014 — actively participating in the UN’s 'Post-2015 Agenda' to determine new UN ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ in meetings at the United Nations. They also share about these experiences at related local and international conferences and have created a website - TheWorldNursesWant.net — to engage others to participate from around the world. In March 2015, NIGH hosted a official ‘Parallel Panel’ and a 'Gala Reception Celebrating the Voices of Nurses & Midwives' at the United Nations during the 2015 UN Commission on the Status of Women — also called CSW Beijing+20.
Based on direct requests from UN Ambassadors and officials, we have also focused NIGH’s work on increasing global concern for UN MDG # 5: ‘Improve Maternal Health.’ This campaign — launched in October 2012 and named ‘Daring, Caring and Sharing to Save Mothers’ Lives’ — has since received 3.5 million hits from 95,000 unique visitors in 146 nations and territories, notably engaging the World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts — during their 2013 Theme to share the mandates of UN MDG #s 4 & 5 with their communities. NIGH is also now an active participant in the Canadian Network for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and for the global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health at the World Health Organization.
From this, we established a six-year collaboration with project partners — in India — to focus directly on nurses’ development and their capacities to impact upon the health of both rural and urban poor populations in and around Mumbai. Here, multidisciplinary students, faculty, and nurses worked, learned and cared for others together. Measurable positive patient outcomes include: reduced rural exposure to life-threatening nitrate in groundwater supplies used for drinking and mobile urban clinics operated by the Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Centre to serve the urban poor. Peer-reviewed research from this multidisciplinary clinical practice, academic and research partnership has been published at international meetings and other conferences.
The above photo captures related appreciation, in Mumbai, to Dr. Holly Shaw, PhD, RN — who serves in numerous roles — from Ms. Phalakshi Manjrekar, Director of Nurses & Board of Management for Hinduja Hospital — who also serves on the Executive Committee of NIGH World's Board of Directors.
This Mumbai initiative was launched in 2009 in response to the United Nations ‘Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs), which have — as their ultimate purpose — the three pillars of reducing global poverty, chronic disease, and stalled development. NIGH engages in this initiative — focused on creating a global community of nurses — who lead in using knowledge, scholarship, service and learning — to improve the health of the world’s people through global partnerships among health care systems, nursing schools, and additional multidisciplinary partners.
NIGH teams also regularly present our work at global, regional and local conferences, in peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and with multi-media projects posted on our websites. We collaborate with colleagues at WHO and at UN Headquarters in both New York and Geneva. During the 2010 UN Millennium Goals Summit, we co-hosted — with the Congress of NGOs in Relationship with the UN — CoNGO — a concert to remember the MDGs at the Lincoln Center, including a featured solo from award-winning pianist Shun-Yang Lee and the awesome Polish-Canadian Soprano Maria Knapik, who also serves as one of NIGH World's Advisors.
NIGH's UN DPI-NGO Representatives & Youth Representatives have hosted and presented at an official Panel featured at UN International NGO Conference in 2014 — actively participating in the UN’s 'Post-2015 Agenda' to determine new UN ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ in meetings at the United Nations. They also share about these experiences at related local and international conferences and have created a website - TheWorldNursesWant.net — to engage others to participate from around the world. In March 2015, NIGH hosted a official ‘Parallel Panel’ and a 'Gala Reception Celebrating the Voices of Nurses & Midwives' at the United Nations during the 2015 UN Commission on the Status of Women — also called CSW Beijing+20.
Based on direct requests from UN Ambassadors and officials, we have also focused NIGH’s work on increasing global concern for UN MDG # 5: ‘Improve Maternal Health.’ This campaign — launched in October 2012 and named ‘Daring, Caring and Sharing to Save Mothers’ Lives’ — has since received 3.5 million hits from 95,000 unique visitors in 146 nations and territories, notably engaging the World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts — during their 2013 Theme to share the mandates of UN MDG #s 4 & 5 with their communities. NIGH is also now an active participant in the Canadian Network for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and for the global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health at the World Health Organization.