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USA-272 [AMRO]
Status
Active
Title of the centre:
  WHO Collaborating Centre for Advanced Practice Nursing

Director / Head: 
  Dr Elaine Larson
  Dr Norma Hannigan




Institution:
  School of Nursing
  Columbia University
Address:
  630 West 168th Street, Box 6
  10032
  NY
Town:
  New York
Country:
  USA
Region:
  AMRO
Phone:
  (1-212) 305 3248
Fax:
  (1-212) 305 6937
Date of Designation:
  15/May/1996
Last Redesignation:
  20/Jan/2011
Expiry:
  20/Jan/2015
Terms of Reference:
  1. Collaborate with WHO to strengthen the human resources research and planning capacity among leading nursing education institutions in Haiti. 
  2. Work with WHO in strengthening emergency preparedness and response capacities among key nursing groups training nursing leaders and integrating emergency preparedness and response into curricula and national plans. 
  3. In collaboration with WHO’s Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services 2007-2017, work on the development of guidelines to strengthen the schools of nursing that train, precept and supervise nurses who are HIV/AIDS primary care providers in heavily affected countries in Africa. 
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Subjects:
  1. Nursing 
  2. Emergency & humanitarian action 
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Types of activity:
  1. Information dissemination 
  2. Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.) 
  3. Training and education 
WHO organization wide expected result:
  10.8 - Health-workforce information and knowledge base strengthened, and country capacities for policy analysis, planning, implementation, information-sharing and research built up.
  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:
  CASSIANI Silvia
Phone:
 
Email:
  cassianis@paho.org

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