Nursing as a Health Equity and Social Justice Movement
Escalating health care costs, the COVID-19 pandemic and racial conflict have spotlighted the impact of our social and health inequities. The re-emerging focus on population health nursing and increasing nurse activism are building on nursing’s long history of addressing the social and environmental root causes of ill health. Our speaker, Dr. Nancy Rudner, discussed new opportunities for nursing to contribute to national and international goals of health equity.
The paper from the journal Public Health Nursing that this Webinar is based on can be downloaded below.
Dr. Rudner is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, focused on population health. She also provides care in a value-based senior primary care practice. Her career has focused on working with individuals, families, and communities to improve health. Dr. Rudner earned her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Michigan as a Pew Scholar in Health Policy, her Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, and her Masters in Nursing from Pace University. She has worked with disaster relief teams in post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. In 2019, Dr. Rudner participated in an international medical brigade in the chronic disaster highlands of Guatemala. In 2019, she also worked with Registered Nurse Response Network to provide nursing care to refugees crossing the Mexico-U.S. border.
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Posted on Sep 14, 2021