The World Innovation Summit for Health and the Nursing Now Challenge, along with academic partners The BMJ, join forces to celebrate the launch of the following publications – How the nursing profession should adapt for a digital future; Nursing’s pivotal role in global climate action; and Nurses for Health Equity. Participants will discuss the key issues highlighted in these publications and provide the opportunity for early-career nurse leaders to engage in conversation and debate with the authors and other high-level policymakers.
This event will also provide the platform for the launch of two challenges as part of the Nursing Now Challenge Global Solutions Initiative. The winners of these challenges will receive a prize of $1,000 to develop their solution.
Welcome and keynote speech
2pm London, 4pm Doha
Session 1: Nurses for health equity
2:10pm London, 4:10pm Doha
Session 2: Nursing & Climate Change
3pm London, 5pm Doha
Session 3: Nurses in a digital world
3:45pm London, 5:45pm Doha
Closing session
4:30pm London, 6:30pm Doha
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity.
Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization
Nurses for Health Equity: Guidelines for Tackling the Social Determinants of Health
Participants will discuss the findings of the new WISH report and consider what role nurses can play in delivering health equity.
Panelists:
The Honorable Juliette Cuthbert Flynn MP, State Minister in the Ministry for Health and Wellness of Jamaica.
Dr. Billy Rosa, Chief Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Mary Frances McManus, Nursing Officer Public Health, Department of Health Northern Ireland.
Prof. Charlotte McArdle, Chief Nursing Officer, Northern Ireland.
Dr. Sanaa Al Harahsheh, Research Manager, WISH, Qatar.
Dr. Catherine Hannaway, Report Principal Investigator.
This session will examine the considerable healthcare challenges of climate change and discuss the role nurses can play in averting a climate emergency. It will also act as the launch of a Nursing Now Challenge based around this issue.
The lead author of the newly published WISH/BMJ paper “Nursing and climate change: meeting the moment” will present highlights of their paper and face questions from a panel of young nursing leaders.
Session speaker:
Dr Patricia Butterfield, RN, FAAN, Professor Emeritus, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, USA
Nurse panelists:
Munashe Nyika – Munashe is a nurse from Zimbabwe, currently working in London. He is also a Nursing Now Challenge board member.
Kurnia Yulian – Kurnia is a nurse from Indonesia and has a particular interest in creating healthier communities through health promotion, tackling climate change and promoting environmental health.
George Chale – George is a Mexican nurse and is the President of the Mexican nursing student’s association.
Ameneh Zadeh – a nurse from Qatar, Ameneh has represented the Nursing Now! Qatar chapter at the 2019 World Health Assembly.
This session will examine the challenges and opportunities faced by nurses working in an increasingly digitized world. It will also act as the launch of a Nursing Now Challenge based around this issue.
The lead author of the newly published WISH/BMJ paper “How the nursing profession should adapt for a digital future” will present highlights of their paper and face questions from a panel of young nursing leaders.
Session speaker:
Dr Richard Booth, RN, Associate Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, Canada
Nurse panelists:
Stephan Kofi Osei – Stephan is a final year nursing student from Ghana. He is currently developing a telehealth platform to enable access to care following a brain injury.
Sana Gul – Sana is an early career nurse from Pakistan. Sana works in the field of digital health, ensuring access to health for remote communities.
Ariani Pertiwi – Ariani is an Indonesian nurse helping to build digital health within her community and developing nursing competencies in health informatics.
Jessica Marian Goodman Casanova – clinical coordinator of the Horizon 2020 European TV Project and researcher of the impact of technologies during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Alice Thomson – Alice worked as part of the Nursing Now team supporting the development of their final report. Alice is a registered clinical research nurse.
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Jeremy Hess, Rachel Lowe, Muna Al Maslamani, Laura-Lee Boodram, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Judith Wasserheit
With the emergent threat of COVID-19, this report focuses on threatening diseases that are a by-product of climate change and what type of policy measures should be intact to deal with this head-on.
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