Students welcome Emily E. Chambers as the keynote
The Nightingale Ceremony is a traditional pinning ceremony
for graduating nursing students, reflecting the values and traditions of the
profession.
While holding a lit candle to honor the late Florence
Nightingale, who made late night, solitary rounds in a Crimean military
hospital to care for wounded soldiers by candlelight, all students will recite
the Nightingale Pledge, written by the International Council of Nurses, and vow
to uphold the integrity of the profession. The burning candle flame symbolizes
the human spirit that is at the core of healing both now and back then.
There will be 112 seniors participating in the ceremony on
Friday, May 17 in Alumni Auditorium at 11 a.m. The students will graduate from
the School of Nursing at Widener University on Saturday, May 18 on Memorial
Field at 9:45 a.m.
Emily E. Chambers will be the keynote speaker at the
ceremony this year. Chambers has promoted evidence-based health education for
nearly two decades. She encourages a better understanding of nutrition on a
global scale.
Chambers received her master’s degree with a focus on
maternal and child health from the School of Public Health at Boston University
in 2009. She earned her bachelors of English in 2000 from Austin Peay State
University. Prior to obtaining her MPH, Chambers served as a health education
program officer for the International Development and Relief Board in Khartoum
Sudan, where she was contracted by The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
to develop a child focused HIV communications strategy. During this time she
also developed and taught a low literacy women’s health course. This position
led her to work for Samaritan’s Purse International Relief, which is a
humanitarian organization that works worldwide to assist people in missionary
work. Chamber’s efforts were related to HIV/AIDS projects, before leaving she
was the program research associate and continued consulting with the
organization while in graduate school.
Chambers currently serves as Office of the U.S. Global AIDS
Coordinator, as well as the co-chair of the Food and Nutrition Technical
Working Group for the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) where
she coordinated with the Strategic Information department to strengthen the
PEPFAR program. Chambers has served in this role since 2011. During this time
she has developed rationale for the Efficiencies Project, helped with the
financial aspects, and managed country-support teams for 11 countries in South
Africa, providing guidance on the application of U.S. global AIDS policies.
Implementing such programs has included negotiating between diverse
stakeholders within the U.S. government, host country governments, and other
donors.
Previously, Chambers served as health coordinator for
Medair, an International humanitarian aid agency, in Sudan where she
implemented a comprehensive primary health care program with a focus on
maternal and child health.
Chambers will address the importance of nutrition as a
component of global health.
Chambers has been published in a number of outlets on her
research on maternal and child health education issues. Her most recent
research has been focused on that of Sudan. She also co-authored the operations
and impact evaluations of an unconditional cash transfer scheme in Malawai
supported by UNICEF and United States Agency for International Development.
For more information visit,
http://www.widener.edu/newsevents/commencement.
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