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Donna Barry

About Donna Barry
Donna Barry, RN, NP, MPH, currently serves as the Advocacy and Policy Director at Partners In Health (PIH) and is appointed as a Researcher at the DGHE. She is guiding PIH’s advocacy and policy efforts related to health and hunger, socio-economic development in Haiti, increased funding for global health, maternal mortality, tuberculosis and health system strengthening. She has participated in briefings and hearings in the U.S. House of Representative on Haiti debt relief, MDR-TB and reproductive health. Previously she led the Partners In Health project to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Russia and was Co-Director of PIH’s women’s health programs in Haiti.

Donna also coordinates PIH’s & DGHE’s nursing activities and continues to provide clinical and program advice to PIH’s women’s health programs. Donna received her RN and MSN with certifications in women’s and adult health from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professionals in 2001 and earned Masters’ Degrees in International Affairs and Public Health, specializing in reproductive health, maternal child health, international development and the former Soviet Union, from Columbia University in New York in 1992.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

Academic
Advocate, Community Organizer
Director (Site, Program, Project)
Nurse
Policy

Organization

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: The Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE) is dedicated to addressing health disparities through training, education, research and service. The Division focuses on infectious diseases (e.g., HIV and tuberculosis) as well as non-infectious diseases (e.g., coronary artery disease and diabetes) and other health problems of major importance across the globe. Through the hospital’s Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity, internal medicine residents in training divide their time between BWH and Partners In Health project sites. This model is now being replicated at other medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country.
Partners In Health - PIH
Website: http://www.pih.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.

Work Location(s)

United States

Donna's Communities

Language(s)

English
Russian

Recent Contributions

Donna Barry replied to "HRH databases" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Hi - this response came from a colleague at PHR. Thanks - donna I’m not aware of any such database, unfortunately. I just use WHO, though information is generally at least several years out of date. GHWA is in the process of developing a database of the 57 countries that WHO identified as having critical HRH shortages (and ultimately perhaps additional countries, and in time, comprehensive country profiles). These country database will include HCW data ...
Donna Barry replied to "The second conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Thanks Linda. would be great if those who participate or who are watching on-line could note if there are any nursing or midwifery related discussions. i don't think there are any specific panels that focus on nursing.
Donna Barry replied to "The second conference of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Hi everyone - would be great if those programs - academic and non-academic posted a summary of their global nursing and midwifery programs on this community so we can have a comprehensive library. Any takers on Linda's suggestion to review the AAN White Paper on Global Nursing and Health. This paper was posted on our GH N&M community - Search "White Paper" or click here: www.ghdonline.org/nursing/resource/aan-white-paper-on-global-nursing-and-health/? Thanks - Donna
Donna Barry replied to "Proposal meeting for those nurses attending APHA this next week." in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Dear Linda - thank you for posting and suggesting the meeting. I will be in Philly for the conference. Tuesday afternoon would be best for me and I'd love to meet with other nurses who are attending and interested in global health. Thanks - Donna
Donna Barry replied to "Help with teaching the community health worker curriculum in Nigeria." in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Dear Anne - Please visit http://model.pih.org and click on the left side bar on Accompagnateurs Curriculum. You'll find our training modules, description of training model, etc. While our training varies some from country to country based on local needs and requests - we typically do a 1-2 week training for new CHWs and then monthly updates after that. If we have a new program direction (say malnutrition) - we might bring all CHWs back for ...

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