Global Research
Opportunities to Share Learning and Deepen Global Dialogue
Nursing research plays a critical role in addressing many of the world’s most pressing health issues. With a strong focus on social justice and health equity, Columbia University School of Nursing conducts global health research that supports people, groups, and communities affected by marginalization, exclusion, and exploitation.
Columbia University President's Global Innovation Fund (PGIF)
The President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) aims to increase global opportunities for research, teaching, and service by supporting Columbia University faculty to develop projects and research in collaboration with the University’s Global Centers. The global centers are a network of hubs in regions around the world, created to enhance the quality of research and learning at Columbia University. The nine global centers are located in:
- Amman
- Beijing
- Istanbul
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago
- Tunis
The PGIF projects may be based in one or several of these cities, or in other locations throughout the centers' regions. By engaging with the centers, faculty benefit from the support, counsel, and a network of contacts offered by center staff.
Columbia’s Global Centers encourage teaching and research across disciplinary boundaries, as well as across country boundaries. The result is that instead of faculty doing isolated pockets of work, we create and participate in broad programs that can transform our entire approach to education and global health.
Jennifer Dohrn, DNP
Visit the Columbia Global Centers website to learn more.
PGIF Grant Awards
The Elaine L. Larson Global Development Fund
Columbia Nursing’s Elaine L. Larson Global Development Fund, initiated in 2018, aims to grow Columbia’s global health research portfolio by providing grants for pilot projects.
Fulbright Scholars
- Ana Kelly, PhD, Assistant Professor, is the first Columbia Nursing faculty member to receive a Fulbright award. Kelly’s project is entitled “Building Nurses’ Capacity to Implement Evidence-Based Practice in Malawi" and ran from March 2019 to August 2019.
- Mauren George, PhD, Professor, also received a U.S. Scholar Fulbright research award with University of the West Indies (UWI) in July 2023. The first aim of George’s two-part project will be to deliver Writing to Improve Nursing Science(link is external and opens in a new window) (WINS), a program Professor Emerita Elaine Larson, PhD, developed to build scientific writing skills among nurse scholars in low- and middle-income countries, to the UWI faculty. WINS has been implemented successfully across Africa and in the Middle East and is funded through Columbia University’s Global Awards. The second aim of her Fulbright work is to implement a community-based participatory research project to develop and test an intervention to support breastfeeding modeled on her own work training clinicians to use motivational interviewing and shared decision-making to improve chronic disease self-management outcomes.
- Judy Honig, EdD, DNP, Professor, is the first Columbia Nursing Fulbright Specialist (2023-2024). She is campaigning for the introduction of the Professional Doctorate, specifically in the domain of Health and Wellbeing, at Saxion University of Applied Sciences and other Dutch universities.