Global Initiatives

Collaborative Partners: NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and LUHS Medical Academy, Faculty of Nursing

Collaborative Partner - Careum University, Zurich

The Ghana Nurse Leaders Program is part of a greater university-wide initiative, Ghana WINS, that is a program funded by Banco Santander.  Three schools within NYU receive funding for program activities – NYU Meyers, Steinhardt and Wagner. 

One nurse from Tanzania (Masunga Iseselo) was chosen to come to NYU as a visiting scholar to adapt the Smiles for Life curriculum for nurses in Tanzania. He is now working to implement a pilot program in two regions of Tanzania to train nurses in the oral health curriculum.

Implementing and evaluating a Sexual Health Promotion intervention that engages young male sex workers in care, including testing and treatment for STIs, testing and referral for HIV, and vaccination for HBV.

Implementing tobacco use treatment guidelines in public health clinics in Vietnam

NYU Meyers has been awarded a five year sub-contract from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), through a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), to participate in the project entitled “Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RRHS) Initiative – Liberia.”  Currently in its second year of implementation, the project includes a consortium of US academic institutions and NGOs working in Liberia to strengthen the country’s health workforce.  NYU Meyers is the lead nu

This study sought to develop mentoring and precepting skills of Tanzanian nurses and midwives working in government and faith-based facilities in northern Tanzania. The goal was to develop mentoring and precepting skills in these cadres to improve worker retention and quality of care. We built a comprehensive training program and completed a follow up evaluation of how the materials were used by the funding partner to sustain the program post-development.

NYU Meyers faculty have a long history of collaboration with colleagues in China. Building on that foundation, we are continuing to develop partnerships with institutions in China, with the goal of fostering sustainable and meaningful research, education and practice.

The Human Resources for Health (HRH) Rwanda Program was established in response to the Minister of Health’s (MoH) identification of the country’s health workforce deficit.  Launched in August 2012, the HRH Rwanda Program has been a partnership among the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH), Rwandan health care facilities & academic institutions, 23 top US academic institutions (nursing, medicine, dentistry, health administration ), & funders including the US Government (P

The study is a follow-up to the NIH R21 study of Colombian Refugees from the Drug Wars in Ecuador, with PI Michele Shedlin. The current project is a small qualitative study with different sectors of the society (police, legislators, journalists, etc.) regarding attitudes toward refugees, working with the NGO FUNSAD. Dr. Shedlin is a Co-Investigator to the project.

 Recently, the NYU Meyers Global Initiatives Program has
 ventured into critical care nursing with their new
 partnership in Tanzania at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac
 Institute (JKCI). Named after the immediate past president
 in Tanzania, the JKCI was inaugurated in 2015 to address the
 specialized cardiac care needs of adults and children living
 in East Africa.  To date, JKCI provides cardiology services
 to approximately 700 outpatients per week and 100 inpatients

NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing was first designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Gerontologic Nursing Education in 2004 and has since been renewed every four years. It is one of more than 800 WHO CCs worldwide and 47  WHO CCs based on schools of nursing. It is a member of the Pan American Network of Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Centers and  the Global Network of Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Centers.