Dean’s Global Health Lecture Series: How the Fulbright and Erasmus+ Programs Improve Global Cooperation Through Mutual Experiences

Cooperation between universities in different countries facilitates global understanding and advances nursing in multiple spheres - education, practice, research, and policy. During this lecture, Dr. Jamesetta and Dr. Blaževičienė will discuss how NYU Meyers and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences have partnered to bring advanced nursing practice to Lithuania through the development of a graduate curriculum, to introduce the advanced nursing practice (ANP) role of the nurse practitioner, to collaborate on research studies and publications, and to recommend policy changes for the nursing scope of practice for ANP. To date, there have been faculty exchanges from each university through Fulbright programs and the Erasmus+ faculty mobility program, which is part of the European Union's mission to support education and training. Attendees will also hear about this journey, and future plans and opportunities.

Panelist bios:

Prof. Jamesetta Newland is clinical professor emerita at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is an expert clinician, nationally certified as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) who maintains an active practice in a federally qualified health center. As the editor-in-chief of The Nurse Practitioner journal, she has authored numerous editorials and scholarly papers, book chapters, and co-edited a textbook on the integration of child and adolescent behavioral health in primary care. Her global experiences have included roles as external examiner to the FNP program in Botswana, advisor to the first NP program in Japan, consultant for advanced nursing practice at a university in China, and Fulbright Specialist and advisor to the first NP program in Lithuania. She is also a member of the Global Health/International Special Interest Group of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and the Global Nursing and Health Expert Panel of the Academy and appointed to the International Committee of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Newland is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, New York Academy of Medicine, and National Academies of Practice.

Prof. Aurelija Blazeviciene is head of the Nursing department at Lithuania University of Health Sciences, launched the first midwifery bachelor’s degree program in Lithuania, and the first master's program in advanced nursing practice in Baltic State. She is a member of working groups, which prepared legal documents for Lithuanian nurses in the Lithuania Health Care Ministry, a WHO expert, and Fulbright scholarship alumni. She has authored numerous scholarly papers and book chapters.