The NIGH Founding Board

Our Mission

NIGH’s mission is to inform and empower nurses and other health care workers and educators to become ‘21st Century Nightingales’ — working in the local, national and global community to build a healthy world.

Our Mandate

NIGH seeks to achieve a healthy world by:

• Enabling peoples of the United Nations, as citizens of its Member States, to work together in a worldwide campaign for health as the top global priority;
• Enlisting nurses and other health care workers and educators to work together effectively — and to collaborate with others of like-mind, heart and spirit— in mobilizing public opinion to this purpose;
• Encouraging individual initiative and cooperative action toward these ends by highlighting the life of Florence Nightingale and the lives other nurses and health care workers—past and present—who have devoted themselves to building a healthy world.

Our Goals

• To build a grassroots movement among nurses, health care workers, educators and other global citizens—from every country and community—who will work together to inform, educate and mobilize public opinion throughout the world towards the adoption of health as the universal priority of the United Nations and its Member States;
• To use communications, media, performing arts and promotional tools for advocacy of these ends;
• To identify, share and actively encourage ‘approaches that work’ to create a healthy world;
• To contribute positive solutions to the worldwide nursing shortage.