One of the most significant challenges facing health care is a global shortage of educated nurses. In a major effort to tackle the problem, the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing are key partners in organizing the first invitational international forum for governmental chief nursing officers, national nursing association leaders, and human resource directors and health planners.

Global Nursing Partnerships: Strategies for a Sustainable Nursing Workforce will be hosted at the Carter Presidential Center and the nursing school October 15 through October 19, 2001. The conference aims to achieve a sustainable global nursing workforce in the face of these human resource challenges by developing individual skills and knowledge and forming partnerships with one another.
The conference will bring together several hundred nurse leaders in governments and national nursing associations for five days of building skills and developing plans for policy strategies and strategic alliances. One of the expected outcomes is that participants will commit to working together with country-specific follow-up plans.

“This conference is both historic and timely,” says Marla Salmon,
dean of the nursing school. “Nursing recruitment and migration are critical political, economic, and health issues for most nations today. This unique forum will enhance the knowledge of nursing leaders and human resource experts and foster new partnerships within the health sector and between governments and civil society.”

For more information, contact Kathryn Kite at 404-727-3063 or kkite@emory.edu.