From reaching out to Atlanta’s homeless to reducing infant mortality worldwide, the School of Nursing connects science and technology with the human experience. Emory nurses advocate for vulnerable populations everywhere, ensuring that every patient emerges from the experience of health care with mind, body, and spirit intact.
The School of Nursing brings expertise to the most pressing health care challenges such as AIDS, obesity, infant mortality, and waterborne illness. Complicating all of them is the global nursing shortage, particularly in those countries hardest hit by poverty and disease. The school’s Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing works with chief nursing and medical officers from more than 80 nations to reverse the flow of nurses from the places that need them most. In the eastern European nation of Georgia, Emory nursing faculty helped write the curriculum for the first university-level nursing school.
In family and community nursing, clinical associate professor and chair Maureen Kelley leads a dozen Emory nursing students each spring to Jamaica, where they care for physically and mentally handicapped children and adults. Alternative Spring Break, as it’s known, challenges students to learn about social justice and experience the transformative power of a caring environment. An internationally recognized educator in nurse midwifery, Kelley is dedicated to global health, working to reduce infant mortality in Russia and support midwives in the Caribbean. She holds Emory’s Independence Chair in Nursing, endowed by the Independence Foundation to build the capacity of nursing to serve vulnerable populations and strengthen nursing practice and scholarship.
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