Faculty Global Engagement
As the Office of Global Outreach (GO) encourages students to pursue global opportunities to enrich their educational experience, many School of Nursing faculty lead by example through pursuing research interests abroad.
Dr. Jody Lori
Recent International Activity
- Liberia, West Africa (2010-2011) -- study currently underway to further understanding of the incidence and predictors of stillbirth or neonatal death contributing to high perinatal mortality in rural Liberia
- Ghana, West Africa (2008-2011) -- major, multi-year project in collaboration with the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and funding from a private donor addressing midwifery pre-service education and faculty retention
- Liberia, West Africa (2008-2010) -- developed a baseline data management strategy to inform and target culturally relevant interventions using verbal autopsies of maternal mortality and severe morbidity cases in one rural county
- Ghana, West Africa (2008-2010) -- collaboration with the University of Ghana, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the Ghana Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service and U-M Schools of Medicine and Public Health to design an evidence-based roadmap for academic-government collaborative interventions that strengthen the training and deployment of human resources for health in Ghana with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Liberia, West Africa (2006- 2008) -- USAID funded project to increase access to basic obstetric life saving measures within the home and community
Other Global Projects
- Multi-center, NIH-funded randomized controlled trial of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in six developing countries
Dr. Antonia M. Villarruel
Recent International Activity
- Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (2000-present) -- working with the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Dr. Villarruel is developing and testing interventions for sexual risk reduction among adolescents as well as interventions to help parents support adolescent decision making related to sexual health; an important component of the project is also disseminating effective sexual risk reduction interventions throughout the community
Other Global Projects
- Trustee of CGFNS International (formerly the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools)
- Consulted with numerous countries related to research and research development
Dr. Carol J. Boyd
Recent International Activity
- Bong County, Liberia (2010-present) -- collaborating with Dr. Jody Lori on several projects to reduce maternal mortality and increase child survival
- Kumasi, Ghana (2009-present) -- collaborating with Victoria Bubunyo Bam (Director of Nursing, KNUST) on study of women caregivers, particularly the role that daughters play in the care of their mothers
- Shanghai, China (2005-present) -- working to increase the visibility of Gender Studies, feminist theory, and feminist research methods at Fundan University in collaboration with faculty from the U-M Women’s Studies Department and the Luce Foundation
Other Global Projects
- As director of the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Dr. Boyd’s oversees the Global Feminism Project and an active visiting scholars program
Dr. Beatric Kalisch
Recent International Activity
- Wuhan, China (2008-2009) -- conducted a survey of patient errors and interview with key medical leaders in the country and ultimately published articles with several Chinese faculty in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
Other Global Projects
- Developed a MISSCARE Survey that evaluates missed nursing care that has been translated into Turkish (Ankara, Turkey; 2008-present), Portuguese (San Paulo, Brazil; 2009-present), Spanish (Santiago, Chili; 2008-present), Mandarin (Wuhan, China), and Icelandic (Reykjav, Iceland; 2009-present) for an international assessment of nursing practice as it compares to practice in the United States
- Developed a Nursing Teamwork Survey (NTS) that has been translated into Portuguese and Icelandic for an international assessment of teamwork as it compares to that in the United States
Dr. Janet Larson
Recent International Activity
- St. Petersburg, Russia (2010) -- presented a workshop for Russian nurses entitled Designing Projects Using Research to Improve Nursing Practice and Advance Quality of Care
- Arkhangelsk Region, Russia (2008, 2007) -- presented workshops for Russian nurses on the topic of using research as a means to improve practice
Other Global Projects
- Dr. Larson and two U.S. colleagues - Marie Driever, PhD, RN and Barbara Mandleco, PhD, RN - spearheaded the development of a collaborative partnership between Sigma Theta Tau International, the Russian Nurses’ Association (RNA), the Association of Medical Workers of Arkhangelsk Region (a regional member of the RNA), and the US-Russian Nurse Researcher Collaborative (USRNRC). The partnership was organized to create online resources for Russian nurses and the first project is the development of a course in nursing research which was initiated in 2010 and is expected to be finished in 2011.
