Evelyn Bigini
PhD(c), MSc, RN
PhD in Nursing Candidate | UCSF School of Nursing
Evelyn Bigini is a PhD Candidate at the UCSF School of Nursing and a Graduate Student Researcher with UCSF Global Action in Nursing (GAIN). Her work focuses on assessing and improving perinatal mental health in collaboration with Partners In Health in Sierra Leone. Her projects include education and research related to the mental health of both patients and healthcare providers.
Evelyn has been engaged in global health since her undergraduate nursing school days. She holds two Master of Science degrees in Global Health Delivery from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. While her academic and professional work spans a wide range of topics, she is especially passionate about community-based strategies and holistic wellbeing, including environmental health, particularly within the areas of mental and reproductive health, and child health.
At the Center for Global Nursing, Evelyn is the recipient of the Global Nursing Research Seed Award. This funding supports her examination of providers’ perspectives on perinatal depression and mental health, the occupational impacts of caring for patients with perinatal depression symptoms, and the coping strategies used by providers at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.