Robin Klar

Robin Toft Klar DNSc, RN, FAAN is a Clinical Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Prof. Klar’s research focuses on global nursing and midwifery capacity building. She also has a focus on the environment, expanding on her doctoral work examining the built environment.

She serves as the NYU Nursing lead on the AMPATH Ghana project and serves as a leader on the AMPATH Nursing Working Group. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing’s Expert Panel on Global Nursing and Health. She currently serves as the Chair of the NGO Health Committee.

Klar’s current research projects include: An Assessment of Nurses and Midwives Knowledge, Attitude, and Readiness to Care for Older Adults in Liberia. This study identifies the contextual baseline as to how nurses and midwives care of older adults in Liberia.

Using Human-Centered Design to Bridge the Chasm between Nursing Academics and Nursing Clinical Practice Toward Advancement of Novice to Advanced Beginner Nursing Personnel. This research project is a collaboration with AMPATH Ghana colleagues at Tamale Teaching Hospital and the University of Development Studies in Tamale, Ghana.

Sparking Pedagogic Innovations through Reflective Educational Experiences (SPIRE 2 ): Building the Global Health Sciences Corridor at NYU Accra. The symposium titled: ‘Building a Global Health Sciences Corridor in Ghana Using Principles of Human-Centered Design’ brings together non-traditional professionals in banking, agriculture, and traffic engineering to inform traditional health care professionals and affiliated organizations to ideate participants priority health issues and potential solutions and funding to move the proposed projects forward.

Prior to joining NYU Meyers Klar was a full-time faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester Graduate School of Nursing. She was an architect in the development, implementation, and evolution of the Graduate Entry Program for eleven years.