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NIGH is building a grassroots-to-global network of friends worldwide.

Shown here, NIGH’s International Co-Director, Dr. Barbara Dossey meets in Pretoria with Thembeka Gwagwa, General Secretary, Democratic Nursing Association of South Africa (DENOSA); Ms. Ela Gandhi, grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi & Ngangi Philemon Ngomu, to Executive Secretary, Southern Africa Network of Nurses & Midwives. To read more >>

NIGH Co-Director Dossey visits South Africa & Gandhi's granddaughter

From June 27th to July 4th 2009, NIGH’s International Co-Director and widely-recognized Florence Nightingale biographer, Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, attended the 24th Quadrennial International Council of Nurses Congress 2009 in Durban, South Africa.

Call for action now by UN General Assembly to mobilize public opinion to support ECOSOC declaration

An international movement of nurses individually committed to global health is calling upon the United Nations General Assembly to act in mobilizing world public opinion to support the Millennium Development Goals and now, the "Internationally Agreed Goals and Commitments in regard to Global Public Health" which the UN Economic and Social Council has recently declared with "unwavering resolve to implement". Read more...

University Health Network of Canada endorses NIGH

The prestigious Canadian University Health Network (UHN) has endorsed the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health.
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In 2008 & 2009, Asoka Roy’s family created a Platinum Sponsorship of the Nightingale Declaration Campaign to honor the memory of their sister — a pioneering nurse & midwife in both India & the United States. Projects developed from this contribution included an India-wide outreach of the Nightingale Declaration dedicated to Asoka’s memory.
See: An Indian Nightingale
Generous Support of Drs. Rustum & Della Roy