Title of the centre:
WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research Capacity-Building
Director / Head:
Professor Kim Usher
Dr Caryn West
Institution:
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition
James Cook University Australia
Address:
PO Box 6811
4870
Qld
Town:
Cairns
Country:
AUSTRALIA
Region:
WPRO
Phone:
+617 4042 1048
Fax:
+617 4042 1590
Date of Designation:
22/Oct/2010
Last Redesignation:
22/Oct/2010
Expiry:
22/Oct/2014
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- Promote and support the regional and international development of nursing and midwifery education, particularly incorporating innovative delivery methods.
- Form a Western Pacific nursing and midwifery education network to strengthen the capacity of nursing schools to deliver quality standards of nursing and midwifery curricula.
- Serve as one of the three core research leaders for the APEDNN to develop a research framework to support the implementation of quality emergency and disaster nursing education and competencies.
- Promote and facilitate health workforce development through technical review of health service workplans in the Pacific region.
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Types of activity:
- Coordination of activities carried out by several institutions (e.g. other WHO collaborating centres)
- Implementation of WHO programmes and activities at country level
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WHO organization wide expected result:
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10.8 - Health-workforce information and knowledge base strengthened, and country capacities for policy analysis, planning, implementation, information-sharing and research built up. |
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10.9 - Technical support provided to Member States, with a focus on those facing severe health-workforce difficulties in order to improve the production, distribution, skill mix and retention of the health workforce. |
Responsible Officer:
FRITSCH Kathleen Louise
Phone:
+63 2 5289804
Technical Counterpart:
NKOWANE Annette Mwansa
Phone:
+41 22 79 14314
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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