Sheila Davis will be the keynote speaker the fifth annual Desmond Tutu Public Health Lecture Series.
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Sheila Davis SPRINGFIELD – Sheila Davis, the chief nursing officer at Partners In Health who has worked in the area of global health for three decades, will be the keynote speaker at American International College's fifth annual Desmond Tutu Public Health Lecture Series, on April 30 at 10 a.m. in the campus' Griswold Theatre. The talk is free to the public.
Cesarina Thompson, dean of the college's School of Health and Science, called Davis a "nationally known speaker on global health and human rights issues" and said the college was "delighted" to have her as the speaker.
"Davis' work reflects the goals of our public health lecture series to raise awareness of local, as well as global health concerns," Thompson said.
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa and primate of the Anglican Church of South Africa served as the series’ inaugural speaker, in 2010, and its namesake.
In addition to her role with Partners In Health, an international non-governmental organization working in 12 countries globally, Davis is an adult nurse practitioner, specializing in HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, and has had an active clinical practice at Massachusetts General Hospital's division of infectious diseases
Outpatient Clinic since 1997.
Davis received her master’s degree in nursing and a doctorate in nursing practice, with a concentration in global health, from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.
In 2004, Davis co-founded Sibusiso, a Boston-based non-government organization with her nursing colleagues in South Africa and Boston, devoted to developing rural nursing clinics and malnutrition programs.
Inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008, Davis is a frequent national speaker on global health, clinical topics including HIV/AIDS, and role of nursing in human rights. In 2009, she was inducted as one of the inaugural class of 12 Carl Wilken’s Fellows working on anti-genocide global efforts as part of the Genocide Intervention Network.
Davis has published in a number of domestic and global journals and is on the editorial board of the "Health and Human Rights: An International Journal." She is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow as part of the 2012 cohort. The fellowship is a three-year leadership fellowship that prepares 20 national nursing leaders to contribute to the national health care strategy.
