Gini Williams
About Gini Williams
Gini Williams has been running the International Council of Nurses’ TB project since 2008. She is a committed advocate for the recognition and investment in nursing as a means to improve the care delivered to people affected by TB particularly in low and middle income countries. The ICN's TB Project is funded via the Lilly MDR-TB Programme and has been working in 16 countries with a high incidence of TB and DR-TB.
She has been active in the field of TB since 1993 and worked as a TB Nurse specialist herself in London for five years. In the mid 1990s she went to Tomsk with the British NGO Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin). It was here, while she was working with nurses to strengthen the outpatient service and community support for patients with TB, that she realized the enormous challenges faced by nurses in delivering good quality patient care and that training was only part of the story. On her return to the UK she completed an MSc in Medical Anthropology and after a year in the post of Northeast London TB Network Manager, she joined City University as a Lecturer in TB and Public Health. She first joined the Nurses and Allied Professional Section of the Union in 1994 and was chair from 2001 to 2002. She chaired TB Alert’s Advisory Board from 1999 to 2002 and was a trustee from 2002 until 2006. In 2003 she was seconded to Head the newly formed Nursing Division of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and joined the ICN after the birth of her second son. Earlier this year, she joined the steering group for the UK Coalition to StopTB.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Nurse
Organization
- International Council of Nurses - ICN
Work Location(s)
- Brazil
- China
- Colombia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic of
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Russian Federation
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Switzerland
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Zambia
Language(s)
- English
- French
- German
Gini's Communities
Recent Contributions
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Gini Williams replied to ""Resistant TB: Use Available Tools Now" Nature Correspondence" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
The ICN TB Project has a full set of training materials based on the transformational training and education methodology which we have developed over the last 8 years. I am willing to share these if people contact me directly. The way we train is very participatory and always uses local ...
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Gini Williams replied to ""Resistant TB: Use Available Tools Now" Nature Correspondence" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
There IS a way and as with everything in this world it is not straightforward. The best way to incentivise all people affected by TB and Dr-TB is to work in partnership with them from diagnosis to the end of treatment. This requires developing a rapport with each patient by ...
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Gini Williams replied to "Expert Panel Dec. 10-14: Scaling-up GeneXpert MTB/RIF" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Thank you for the opportunity to join this discussion. It is obvious there are many concerns of a technical nature to ensure the effective roll-out of Genexpert and I would like to pick up on a couple of these from a patient care perspective. Personally I feel there is a ...
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Gini Williams replied to "Expert Panel: How to train nursing leaders - bridging the divide between nurses who provide direct patient care and nurse managers in order to improve health care systems." in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
This refers back to our earlier discussion on the difference between leadership in nursing practiced at the bedside and in the broader clinical environment and the leadership involved in administrative and other recognised leadership roles. All nurses need certain assertiveness and communication skills which can be taught, in order to ...
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Gini Williams replied to "Expert Panel: How to train nursing leaders - bridging the divide between nurses who provide direct patient care and nurse managers in order to improve health care systems." in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.
Thank you Barbara, this is a very helpful and reassuring comment. Reassuring as it points to an underlying social factor which hampers our efforts and not necessarily our personal shortcomings. It is obviously important for nurses to be reflective about their work but also recognise the wider context and the ...
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.