Announcing
Six YSN students awarded Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowships
The 2008 YSN Downs Fellowship recipients,(L-R) Eden Garber, Regina Longinotti, Marina McIver, Erin Luskutoff, Jessica Pettigrew, Rosha Forman
Six YSN students were recently awarded Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowships, competitive grants administered by the Committee on International Health based at the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health.
The students and their YSN mentors worked to develop nursing research proposals for the Downs Fellowship, and will be undertaking their projects overseas from June to August of 2008. This represents a record level of interest by YSN in this research opportunity and paves the way for other projects in nursing research in years to come.
The students and their research titles include:
Eden Garber '09
A Nutritional Assessment of School-aged Children around Les Cayes, Haiti
Jessica Pettigrew '09
Pica Practices Among Parous Haitian Women in La Romana, Dominican Republic
Erin Loskutoff '09
Reminiscence Facilitation Resource Guide to be used with Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Changsha, China
Rosha Forman '09
Adherence to AMTSL Guidelines: Current Practices and Beliefs of Zambian Skilled Birth Attendants
Marina McIver '09
Knowledge, Attitude, and Use of Emergency Contraception among Young Women in the Western Cape, South Africa
Regina Longinotti '09
Microbicide Acceptability among Reproductive Age Women in Georgetown, Guyana
Three YSN Faculty attend training course in China
YSN Faculty Nancy Reynolds, Kris Fennie, and Angelo Alonzo with students
Under the Yale-China Association's Chung Academic Nursing Leadership Program, from March 5-12, 2008, YSN Faculty Kris Fennie, Nancy Reynolds and Angelo Alonzo carried out an intensive quantitative research methods training course at Central South University School of Nursing in Changsha in China. Ann Williams, Professor of Nursing at YSN and the Acting Executive Director of the Yale-China Association, opened the training course.
"It is no small thing to travel halfway around the world, get off a plane late at night, and face forty eager, strange faces the next morning. The teaching days are long, the work is intense," said Ann Williams, "by every report, and my own observations, the course is a tremendous success. Not only are you (the YSN faculty) helping to education the next generation of nurse-leaders in China, you are extending and deepening the century-old relationship between Xiangya and Yale. Even in this day of instant messaging, there is no substitute for face-to-face personal contact."
Approximately 40 nursing faculty, nursing Ph.D. student, and nursing leaders from Central South University School of Nursing and the three hospitals affiliated with the Xiangya School of Medicine of Central South University attended this course, which is the first of several such intensive short courses to be conducted in Changsha by YSN faculty under the Yale-China Chung Academic Nursing Leadership Program.
YSN Faculty to Serve as Acting Executive Director of Yale China Association
Ann Williams with Dean Hue at Central South University School of Nursing, Hunan, China.
Ann Bartley Williams, Jayne Professor of Nursing, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Yale Center for International Nursing Scholarship and Education has been appointed to serve as Acting Executive Director of the Yale China Association, beginning February 18, 2007. Dr. Williams has been an active member of the YCA Board of Trustees since 1996 and is currently a Visiting Professor at Central South University School of Nursing in Hunan Province, China.
As Acting Executive Director, Dr. Williams will facilitate the continued growth and strategic planning for the organization, while continuing to support the close relationship between YCA and YSN. Over the past decade, numerous Chinese nurse-scholars and nursing leaders have partnered with YSN faculty and students in programs of education and scholarship.
Yale-China Fellow to Present Poster at International HIV Conference
Li Xianhong, Yale-China's Chung Academic Nursing Leadership Program Fellow, has been selected to give a poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence. Supported by the Chung Academic Nursing Leadership Program, Xianhong has been spending the 2007-2008 academic year at Yale University School of Nursing working with Professor Ann Williams, a prominent HIV/AIDS scholar. Her presentation at the conference is entitled "Self-reported Stigma among People Living with HIV/AIDS in South Central China."
