Partnerships and Collaborations
The Center for Global Nursing is part of broader UCSF and IGHS efforts to advance equitable and sustainable partnerships. Our initiatives are designed and led by bedside nurses, nurse leaders, and diverse collaborators working across global settings. CGN and collaborators promote equity by ensuring that our global partners' voices are heard. Together, we co-develop innovative programs, tools, and resources that support the design, implementation, and evaluation of equitable clinical exchanges across diverse international contexts.
Lao Friends Hospital for Children
The Center for Global Nursing collaborates with Lao Friends Hospital for Children (LFHC) on the American Academy of Pediatrics' ICATCH Grant (2025–2028) to strengthen the identification and stabilization of critically ill children at the only pediatric referral hospital in northern Laos, which serves more than 45,000 children annually. The pediatric emergency nursing collaboration includes conducting assessments to identify needed resources, policies, and clinical competencies, expanding access to essential pediatric emergency and simulation equipment, and using a Train-the-Trainer Model and hands-on simulation-based education to support sustained capacity building, ongoing education, evaluation, and hospital-wide implementation.
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital
The AMPATH Consortium is a network of academic health centers that aims to foster long-term, equitable, cross-cultural partnerships with host health centers and universities serving populations with significant unmet needs. Each institution brings its perspective and opportunities for nursing trainee exchange programs and hands-on education in the United States, Canada, and globally. Through the AMPATH Consortium, the Center for Global Nursing collaborates with Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to promote nursing leadership through various research, clinical, and quality improvement collaborations, including the Clinical Global Scholars Program. Together, the Center for Global Nursing and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital share knowledge, provide training, and support quality improvement efforts to advance nursing care in western Kenya.
Muhimbili National Hospital
The Center for Global Nursing collaborates with Muhimbili National Hospital to offer the Perioperative Nursing Certificate Course, a 20-week program which is the first training of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. This program is also Tanzania’s first specialized post-degree training in perioperative nursing. By investing in nursing leadership and specialized education, this Perioperative Nurse Training Program prepares nurses across Tanzania to deliver safe, consistent, evidence-based perioperative care by advancing surgical safety and surgical excellence.
Mulago National Referral Hospital
The Center for Global Nursing collaborates with Mulgao National Referral Hospital to develop the one-day intensive Systematic Assessment Resuscitation Training (StART) Pediatric Basic Life Support (BLS) program to address the urgent need for context-appropriate pediatric emergency training for nurses across Africa. This course equips nurses with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to systematically assess, promptly intervene, and deliver effective pediatric BLS. This work has been supported through a grant from the UK-based non-profit organization, KidsOR.
Tongan Ministry of Health
The Center for Global Nursing collaborates with the Tongan Ministry of Health to offer a Global Nursing Quality Improvement Fellowship. Through an onsite workshop and monthly virtual follow-up sessions with UCSF faculty, the fellowship strengthens interprofessional collaboration and contributes to the development of sustainable health systems by championing continuous global nursing quality improvement education, mentorship, and advancements in quality care, ultimately leading to improved patient care outcomes and quality care advancements across Tonga and the Pacific islands.
Global Action in Nursing
The Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) is a research program led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Kimberly Baltzell, PhD, MS, RN, which aims to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes and prevent maternal and infant complications and death during childbirth by increasing the number of nurses and midwives and providing clinical and leadership training and ongoing mentorship to those working in high-risk communities in Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Memphis, Tennessee.