May 12 2025 is International Nurses Day and it’s the day that WHO will host a global webinar to officially launch the State of the World’s Nursing (SOWN) 2025 report. The webinar will feature the International Council of Nurses, WHO Health Workforce and WHO Chief Nurse Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu. The webinar will go ‘around the world’ hearing why the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 is important to nurses and leaders across the globe.
This is clearly relevant to the HIFA community. As the biggest workforce in the world, nurses play a critical role in the provision of health care information that is accurate, evidence-based, timely, compassionate and tailored to the needs of those who access health care.
The webinar can be joined by registering here:
https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UhwSP27fTZC8iLbRmZX6eA#/registra...
To give a “taster” of the report - it builds upon and updates the 2020 edition that many will be familiar with and will provide a comprehensive description of the world’s nursing workforce in the context of a changed global environment, more complex health and disease profiles, greater demands on health systems and the urgency to orient to the focused global priorities in the remaining period of the Sustainable Development Agenda.
It promises to be an enlightening event.
HIFA profile: Julie has over a decade of experience working for WHO on the development, implementation and evaluation of global improvement programmes in the field of patient safety, quality and infection prevention and control, with a focus on behaviour change. Her current work spans two WHO units – quality Universal Health Coverage and Global Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Her technical and leadership expertise was called on to support WHO’s Ebola response and recovery efforts in 2014/15, with a focus on national IPC policy development in Sierra Leone. She led on the development of the recently published evidence based WHO Guidelines on the Core Components of Infection Prevention and Control Programmes at the National and Acute Health Care Facility Level. She was previously President of the Infection Prevention Society of the UK and Ireland, Assistant Director at the English National Patient Safety Agency and Director of the seminal cleanyourhands campaign. Julie has authored a book (Perspectives and Perceptions of IPC – highly commended at the 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards), published widely in the academic literature and is peer reviewer of a range of academic journals including Implementation Science, and on the international advisory board of the Journal of Infection Prevention. She is currently studying for a doctorate in public health (health care leadership and management) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. julesstorr AT me.com