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Maggie Sullivan

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About Maggie Sullivan
Maggie Sullivan is a family nurse practitioner with an interest in serving immigrant patients and their families. She received her master's in nursing at the University of California-San Francisco and went on to provide primary care services for several years at a Federally Qualified Health Center in the Bay Area of California. Ms. Sullivan's research interests include the health of undocumented immigrants, day laborers, and the US-Mexico binational/border health care systems. She was the lead author of "Mental Health of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants: A Review of the Literature" published 2005 in Advances in Nursing Science. In 2009 Ms. Sullivan completed an internship with PIH's Institute for Health and Social Justice. She now works at Boston Health Care for the Homeless and continues to collaborate with PIH on its projects in Chiapas and Guatemala.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Nurse

Organization

  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless
    Website: http://www.bhchp.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) is the largest and most comprehensive health care for the homeless program in the United States. BHCHP began in 1985 as one of 19 health care for the homeless programs funded nationally by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust. Last year, BHCHP delivered services to more than 11,000 homeless men, women, and children.
  • 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.
  • University of California San Francisco - UCSF
    Website: http://www.ucsf.edu/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: University of California, San Francisco is a leading university dedicated to defining health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.

Language(s)

  • English
  • Spanish

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    Maggie Sullivan started a discussion "Inside Haiti" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    This communication is cross-posted at GANM (Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery). It is written by a member of GANM who is currently in Haiti and provides an update to the current situation. This is cross-posted in our best efforts to facilitate correspondence with nurses in Haiti. Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your support! Yes we are still running for the basics of surviving. Access to Water and Food, so basic, are still our priorities! ...

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    Maggie Sullivan replied to "Protecting the Global Nurse-Regional Conference 3/25/10, Univ. MD, Baltimore" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    For those interested in the topic, a new article titled "Violence Toward Nurses, the Work Environment, and Patient Outcomes" was recently published in Journal of Nursing Scholarship. It can be accessed online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123188089/PDFSTART

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    Maggie Sullivan replied to "Independent Nursing Research Grants" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    Hi Sara, For starters, are you a member of any nursing organization (ie Sigma Theta Tau International, your state nursing association, or national certification board)? They often offer grant monies. Secondly, do you belong to the alumni association at your nursing or undgraduate school? Many offer research grants. Lastly, depending on the topic/subjects of your independent research project, you may be able to find additional support. For example, Migrant Clinicians Network has its own IRB ...

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    Maggie Sullivan started a discussion "24-Hour Virtual International Day of the Midwife: May 5, 2010" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    Dr Deborah Davis (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) and Sarah Stewart (Otago Polytechnic Education Development Centre, Dunedin, New Zealand) would like to invite you to celebrate International Day of the Midwife on May 5th 2010 by joining us at some stage during the 24 hour Virtual International Day of the Midwife event. We would like to hear from midwives or student midwives in every time zone who would like to be involved in this unique, ...

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    Maggie Sullivan started a discussion "9th International Conference on Urban Health: October 27-29, 2010 in NY, NY" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    The 9th International Conference on Urban Health now invites abstract, workshop, and special session submissions for consideration in the conference program. Deadline is Monday, May 31, 2010. For questions and submissions, please contact: icuh2010@abstractserver.com. This year’s theme, Good Governance for Healthy Cities, was chosen to showcase the importance of governance in creating healthy cities and improving the health of urban populations, as well as the social and public health policies that are required to address ...

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