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Greetings from Conference Co-Hosts

Columbia University School of Nursing

Columbia University School of Nursing is delighted to co-host the Global
Health Recalibration conference (September 4-6, 2024) with the
Chiang Mai University Faculty of Nursing. The conference will bring
together international nursing leaders from different areas of
healthcare —academics, researchers, clinicians — to share their

expertise and experience in a forum whose aim is to find new approaches
to global heath challenges, a task currently complicated and heightened
by climate change, vast migration, a pandemic, and wars.

As frontline providers of care, nurses are uniquely positioned as problem
solvers and have a long history of calibrating means and methods to
meet the needs of people they serve. The conference represents a rare
opportunity to create a dialogue among nurses that should enable

them to both teach and learn and hopefully synthesize their insights into
collective strategies for improving healthcare education, investigation,
and delivery.

Borders and boundaries must be crossed to improve outcomes.
Columbia Nursing’s collaboration with the nursing faculty of Chiang Mai
University suggests the potential significance of meaningful “exchanges”
as we continue to develop a thriving and productive relationship with

our Thai colleagues. Recalibration doesn’t mean simply discarding old
models but rather taking a series of incremental steps that can result in
dramatic advances. We are eager for you to join us on this journey.

Lorraine Frazier, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean & Mary O. Mundinger Professor of Nursing

Columbia University School of Nursing
Sr. Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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