"Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. These are the people who devote their lives to caring for mothers and children; giving lifesaving immunizations and health advice; looking after older people and generally meeting everyday essential health needs. They are often, the first and only point of care in their communities. The world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives if it is to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

That’s why the World Health Assembly has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife."

Learn more: https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife-2020

To recognize the impact of nurses and midwives and celebrate throughout the year with global health impact events series, we invite you to join us in the upcoming UMSN events.

This list will continue to be updated with event details.

5B is the inspirational story of everyday heroes, nurses and caregivers who took extraordinary action to comfort, protect and care for the patients of the first AIDS ward unit in the United States. 5B is stirringly told through first-person testimony of these nurses and caregivers who built Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital, their patients, loved ones, and staff who volunteered to create care practices based in humanity and holistic well-being during a time of great uncertainty. The result is an uplifting yet candid and bittersweet monument to a pivotal moment in American history and a celebration of quiet heroes, nurses and caregivers worthy of renewed recognition.

Sponsored by Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities

Film to be followed by a brief discussion.

Join us to share a lunch full of international discourse. All UMSN community international or internationally minded are welcome. Bring a dish/drink/treat to share. If not, don't stress, just RSVP so we make sure there is enough food to go around!

RSVP at https://forms.gle/MQGaVeXQwSQJ1GrL7 by Feb 5

Future dates: March 13 BlueJeans due to COVID-19

Gateways Workshop:

Hear from a panel of speakers who are currently working in global health.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/c74Pr9qZWmtMgrmn8

Wrestling Ghosts is a raw, intimate, and heart-opening documentary about parenting, childhood trauma and healing. Wrestling Ghosts follows the epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heart-breaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past to create a new present and future for her and her family. In this intimate portrait, Kim shares deeply personal moments that most of us keep secret in shame, and invites us into her counseling sessions. With her counselors’ help, Kim opens up to new ways of thinking and uncovers what has blocked her from experiencing the joy and connection she most desires. She learns about the impact of childhood trauma on her brain, and how, tragically, this very damage causes the trauma to be passed on to her own children. Armed with knowledge and compassion, she pursues new strategies to heal herself

Sponsored by Cascaid

Film to be followed by a brief discussion.

Hope and resilience in the time of Ebola - Survivors interweaves the heroic stories of Mohamed Bangura, the senior ambulance driver at the country's main ambulance dispatch location and Margaret Sesay, a nurse who works at the EMERGENCY Ebola treatment center in Freetown caring for some of the sickest patients...the interwoven narratives pull us into a world colored by the grace and resilience of ordinary people surviving extraordinary circumstances.

Film to be followed by a brief discussion.

Join us to share a lunch full of international discourse. All UMSN community international or internationally minded are welcome. Bring a dish/drink/treat to share. If not, don't stress, just RSVP so we make sure there is enough food to go around!

RSVP at https://forms.gle/MQGaVeXQwSQJ1GrL7 by Feb 5

Future dates: March 13; April 3