Landmark Conference of Nursing and Midwifery Leaders Meet to Create Research Agenda in Sub Saharan Africa

Study Explores Knowledge Gaps in Nursing Clinical Care Research

Invitation to Cover:

Most African people receive their health care from nurses or midwives, yet there is a large gap between the unmet health priorities in the region and the kind of clinical nursing and midwifery research required to improve health outcomes and reduce unnecessary or ineffective treatments or procedures.

This milestone conference, sponsored by Columbia University School of Nursing and the Columbia Global Centers | Africa (Nairobi), in collaboration with nursing and midwifery experts from Kenya, Malawi and South Africa, brings together for the first time nurse and midwifery leaders from 13 sub-Saharan African nations with the goal of creating an action plan that identifies knowledge gaps in clinical care and greater use of scientifically-informed health care practices.

In addition, new research findings presented at the meeting will identify critical health care gaps and priorities that are currently not sufficiently addressed by national or regional health care research agendas.

 

What: “Setting Research Priorities for a Healthier Africa: Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern Africa.”

Where: Columbia Global Centers| Africa (Nairobi),Westlands,

Mvuli Road off Waiyaki Way (opposite Mvuli Park)                                                  

Nairobi, Kenya  

When:  Wednesday and Thursday, July 8-9, 2015

Who:  

  • Susan Agunda Otieno, Director of Nursing Services, Ministry of Health, Kenya
  • Edna Chemutai Tallam, Registrar, Nursing Council of Kenya
  • Magda Awases, Adviser, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
  • Elaine Larson, PhD,  Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University School of Nursing        

Media Contact

In Africa

Rosemary Nzuki, Regional Communications Specialist

Columbia Global Center| Africa                                                     

rnzuki@cgcafrica.org                                                                                         

In US

Marc Kaplan, Associate Dean, Marketing and Strategic Communications

Columbia University School of Nursing                                                              

Ph: 212-305-3282 (o)
646-244-2169 (c)
email: MK3483@Columbia.edu