Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response
Recording of a webinar presented on May 6, 2020 by the Center for the Study of Social Difference working group On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics.
PROGRAM:
Introduction:
-Mary Marshall Clark (Director, Columbia Center for Oral History Research)
Interview Excerpts and Commentary:
-Jennifer Dohrn (Assistant Dean, Columbia Office of Global Initiatives)
-Annette Mwansa Nkowane (Former Technical Officer of Nursing and Midwifery, World Health Organization)
-Susan Michaels-Strasser (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, ICAP, Columbia University Medical Center)
-Margaret Loma Phiri (Nursing and Midwifery Advisor, Seed Global Health/Malawi)
Policy Implications:
-Wilmot James (Visiting Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)
Gender & Nursing:
-Victoria Rosner (Dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Panel followed by Q&A.
A note on the program:
The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in western Africa was a devastating pandemic in which healthcare workers confronted soaring contagion and mortality. For the past two years, Columbia faculty on a project sponsored by the Women Creating Change initiative of the Center for the Study of Social Difference have been working to understand how nurses on the front lines of Ebola succeeded in ending that outbreak, using the methods of oral history to elicit nurses' stories and analyze their significance for health care policymakers going forward. At this event, you will hear the voices of the Ebola nurses, understand their insights, and consider the implications for all of us today in the battle against COVID-19.