UTS will work with the World Health Organisation to drive engagement across the Pacific Region to improve health outcomes.
UTS will engage with leaders to develop and strengthen health workforce capacity, regulation and education to achieve better health outcomes in the Western Pacific region. Photo by Donyanedomam via iStock.
Health representatives from across the Western Pacific region have celebrated the official launch of UTS's elected role to the Global Network for World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres in Nursing and Midwifery (GNWHOCCNM): 2022-2026.
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was recently named the Secretariat for the GNWHOCCNM and will now serve a four-year term to drive engagement and collaboration across the Western Pacific and Global Network to improve health of individuals and diverse communities locally and globally through leadership and excellence in nursing education, research, practice, and service.
Director of the UTS WHO Nursing and Midwifery and Health Development Collaborating Centre, Dr Michele Rumsey, says the appointment reinforces UTS’s long history connecting leaders across public health, nursing, and midwifery to achieve the World Health Organization’s vision of Health for All.
Through knowledge sharing and capacity building across the network we are honoured to contribute to key health and development priorities and work towards achieving WHO’s vision of health for all.
Dr Michele Rumsey
UTS WHO Nursing and Midwifery and Health Development Collaborating Centre
Dr Rumsey said there were a number of projects currently underway at the WHO CC UTS that are being conducted in partnership with nurses and midwives across the Pacific region, including Pacific leadership programs and health workforce quality improvement programs, as well as a significant health strengthening education program with Papua New Guinea’s National Department of Health, funded by the Australian Government.
The new curriculums are being developed with an evidence-based approach linked to the National Health Plan 2021-2030 to address the health needs of the country and will go through an extensive accreditation process for delivery in 2024.
Across the global network, the Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Centres are delivering a number of different research projects to address global health trends and further the WHO health agenda.
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