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Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program

The Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program trains nursing and midwifery professionals and educators to strengthen their countries’ health systems and better manage population health.

Faculty

Dr. Ferguson has worked in 100+ nations as a technical advisor, consultant, and facilitator for preeminent global health entities including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).  Based in Geneva Switzerland for 10+ years, she directed the ICN Leadership for Change Program, the ICN-Burdett Global Nursing Leadership Institute and served as an ICN Consultant for Nursing and Health Policy. Dr. Ferguson worked for more than 20 years at WHO headquarters and regional offices where she developed strategic plans and initiatives to strengthen nursing and midwifery services and evaluate global health care delivery systems, population health outcomes, health professional education, and leadership programs. Dr. Ferguson is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, and distinguished practitioner and fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

From 2006-2013, Prof. Atun was Professor of International Health Management and Head of the Health Management Group at Imperial College London. From 2008-2012, he served as a member of the Executive Management Team of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as the Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster. Prof. Atun is a co-investigator and the joint lead for the innovation work stream at the National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management at Imperial College. He has worked with more than 30 governments globally as well as the World Bank, WHO, and the UK Department for International Development on health system reform initiatives. Prof. Atun served as a member of the MRC (UK) Global Health Group, and the Academy of Medicine’s Standing Committee on Strengthening Health Systems. He chaired the WHO Task Force on Health Systems and Tuberculosis Control.