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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 BA from Barnard College in Comparative Religions and Art History. She later completed her masters in nursing at the University of California - San Francisco with a sub-specialty in women's health. Her research interests include the health of undocumented immigrants, day laborers and their sending communities. 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 Practitioner

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.
  • Global Nursing Caucus
    Website: http://blogs.bu.edu/globalnursingcaucus/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: The Global Nursing Caucus (GNC) is a forum for exchanging best practices, mentoring collaboratively, and sharing, critiquing global health information, and actively engaging in global health issues.
  • 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.

Work Location(s)

  • Guatemala
  • Mexico
  • United States

Language(s)

  • English
  • Spanish

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