2008 News
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14 MAY 2008
CGFNS International proudly announces its 2008 International Distinguished Leadership Award recipient and the theme for its fifth annual Building Global Alliances Symposium
CGFNS International today announced the theme for its fifth annual Building Global Alliances Symposium, which will be held 7–8 December at The Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Challenges of Migration for Health Professional Women is the theme for the 2008 international symposium.
The event will conclude with a Gala honoring Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS (hon), FAAN, as the 2008 CGFNS International Distinguished Leadership Award recipient. Dr Meleis is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and Director for the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. She was chosen as the 2008 CGFNS International Distinguished Leadership award recipient based on her outstanding international, professional and personal achievements that serve as a model for success in the global health care community.
Prior to coming to Penn, Dr Meleis was a Professor on the faculty of nursing for 34 years at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of California San Francisco. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK, the American Academy of Nursing, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Committee on Transforming the Case for American Commitment to Global Health as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar National Advisory Committee; a Trustee of the National Health Museum; and a Board Member of CARE, the Global Health Council, Nurses Education Funds, Inc. and Life Science Career Alliance. She is Council General of ICOWHI, the International Council on Women’s Health Issues (www.icowhi.org), an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care and well-being of women throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education and research. She is also a Global Ambassador for the Girl Child Initiative of the International Council of Nurses.
Dr Meleis' scholarship is focused on global health, immigrant and international health, women’s health, and on the theoretical development of the nursing discipline. She is the author of more than 150 articles in social sciences, nursing, and medical journals; 40 chapters; 6 books; and numerous monographs and proceedings. Her teaching focuses on structure and organization of nursing knowledge, transitions and health and international nursing.
In addition, Dr Meleis is the recipient of numerous honors and awards as well as honorary doctorates and distinguished and honorary professorships around the world. Among her awards, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak presented her the Medal of Excellence for professional and scholarly achievements in 1990, and in 2000 she received the Chancellor’s Medal from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
For more information, go to www.cgfns.org/globalevent2008.
