Nurses and advanced practice providers have historically been undervalued and underutilized in global health, yet they comprise the majority of the global health workforce. The Global Nursing Impact Series aims to provide a platform for leading nurses and advanced practice providers to share the impact that they are making in the field of global health through research, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and more. Invited speakers will present for 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute Q&A session.
The lecture series is hosted by the Center for Global Nursing (CGN) on the second Tuesday of each month on Zoom. More CGN events can be found on the CGN website.
Speaker
Evelyn Bigini, PhD(c), MSc, RN
PhD in Nursing Candidate, UCSF School of Nursing
Evelyn Bigini is a PhD Candidate at the UCSF School of Nursing and a Graduate Student Researcher with UCSF Global Action in Nursing (GAIN). Her work focuses on assessing and improving perinatal mental health in collaboration with Partners In Health in Sierra Leone. Her projects include education and research related to the mental health of both patients and healthcare providers.
Evelyn has been engaged in global health since her undergraduate nursing school days. She holds two Master of Science degrees in Global Health Delivery from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. While her academic and professional work spans a wide range of topics, she is especially passionate about community-based strategies and holistic wellbeing, including environmental health, particularly within the areas of mental and reproductive health, and child health.
At the Center for Global Nursing, Evelyn is the recipient of the Global Nursing Research Seed Award. This funding supports her examination of providers’ perspectives on perinatal depression and mental health, the occupational impacts of caring for patients with perinatal depression symptoms, and the coping strategies used by providers at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.
UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Pilar Deer at pilar.deer@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.