Congress2021

Dr Tassana Boontong

President, Thailand Nursing and Midwifery Council

Associate Professor, Dr Boontong, is the former President of the Nurses’ Association of Thailand. She pioneers the innovative nursing programs for six universities where she served as the founder Dean. In political and policy leadership, she is the first nurse serving as the Vice President of Senate, Vice-Chairperson of National Reform Council, and the board member of National Legislative Assembly. She is a former ICN board member, the Chairperson in developing the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Nursing Services, and the Board of Directors of the World Academy of Nursing Sciences

Stella de Sabata

ICN Programme Manager

Dr Hung-Da Dai

Nursing Supervisor, Taipei Veterans General Hospital TWNA

Lynda Benton

Senior Director, Corporate Equity & Partnerships, Johnson & Johnson

Edward Zhou

General manager of Ethicon, part of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices China

Jun Deng

Deputy Director at Peking University First Hospital, LFC trainer Chinese Nursing Association

Mengmei Pu

Nursing Quality Improvement Manager at Beijing Tongren Hospital, LFC participant Chinese Nursing Association

Dong Rong Li

Nursing Supervisor at Beijing Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital, LFC participant Chinese Nursing Association

Prof. Dr. Rr. Tutik Sri Hariyati

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia

Loretta Ford

Vanessa Philippe

Administrative assistance, nursing and health policy

Richard Elliot

Director, Communications and Events at ICN

Susan Williams

Consultant, International Council of Nurses

Yurley Agudelo

Director of Health Services and professor CES University

Claudett James

Coordinator, Nursing Now Jamaica Project

Uraiporn Janta-um-mou

Nursing Technical Officer and Nursing Now Coordinator, Ministry of Public Health Thailand

Dr Karen Bjøro

ICN Board Member

Josette Roussel

Director of Clinical Services, Montfort Hospital, Ottawa, Canada

Laura Nel

Director, Global Community Impact, Johnson & Johnson

Prof Dr Semra Ulusoy Kaymak

Deputy Director General, Health Services, Ministry of Health, Turkey

Prof Achir Yani Hamid

Professor in Mental Health-Psychiatric Nursing Department. Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia

Zheng Li

Vice-President of the Chinese Nursing Association

Kathryn Moelstad

Senior Advisor Dep Professional Affairs and Health Policy Norwegian Nurses Organization

Khin Mar Kyi

Vice - President (2) of Myanmar Nurse and Midwife Association

Martha Turner

Dileep Kumar

President, Indian Nursing Council & Ex-Nursing Adviser to the Govt. of India

Dr Sarvjeet Kaur

Secretary, Indian Nursing Council

Jain Ko

Deputy director, Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

Prof. Sudath Warnakulasuriya

President, Sri Lanka Nurses Association

Dr Majeda A. Al-Ruzzieh

Chief Nursing Officer, King Hussein Cancer Center/ Amman, Jordan

Hana Ibrahim Abu Sharib

Senior Nursing Informatics Officer, SEHA

Dr Michelle Acorn

Chief Nurse, Nursing and Programmes, International Council of Nurses

Elizabeth Adams

President, European Federation of Nurse Associations

Romnick B. Aguilar

Acting Chief Nursing Officer and Infection Prevention and Control Officer, San Pedro Jose L. Amante Emergency Hospital, Philippines

Hannah Akua Oparebea Acquah

Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives; Project Director, Ghana-SickKids Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership

Ali Juma Al Ahjme

Director of Digital Health Department, in Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE

Prof Rowaida Al Maaitah

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology

Aysha Al Mahri

Group Chief Nursing Officer, Abu Dhabi Health Service Company (SEHA); President, Emirates Nursing Association

Dr Fariba Al-Darazi

Health Workforce Development and Nursing Consultant, Kingdom of Bahrain

Her Royal Highness Muna al-Hussein

WHO Patron for Nursing and Midwifery in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Dr Safa Azaat Al Mustafa

Acting Chief Executive Officer, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City and Al Rahba hospitals, UAE

Dr Salem Said Al Touby

Associate Professor and Dean, College of Pharmacy and Nursing, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman

Dr Mohammed G. Alghamdi

President, Saudi Nurses Association

Prof Parveen Ali

Editor in Chief, International Nursing Review

Dr Fatima Ali-Rifai

ICN Board Member

Ingrid Bing Andersson

1st Vice President, International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists

Valeska Antunes

Family and Community Medicine

Dr Akiko Araki

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Toho University, Japan Former Executive Officer of the Japanese Nursing Association

Eugenia Trigoso Arjona

Member, Global Educational Committee, European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

Prof Lydia Aziato

Dean, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana

Dr Cynthia Baker

Executive Director, Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN)

Mukul Bakhshi

CGFNS, Director of Government Affairs / CGFNS Alliance, USA

Luisa Baldini

BBC

Marta Barahona

Manager, Citizen Service Area, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain

Fabiana Baraido

Family and Community Medicine

Dr Gillian Barclay

VP, Global Public Health and Scientific Affairs at Colgate-Palmolive

Perla Idolina Barragán Sosa

President, National College of Nurses, Mexico

Gillian Berry

CEO, PerCen Technologies

Melissa Kleine-Bingham

WHO infection prevention and control and quality consultant, Timor-Leste

Dr Karen Bjøro

ICN Board Member

Jeannine Blake

Intensive Care Nurse and PhD candidate, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing & Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Soledad Gallardo Bonnet

CEO, Regional Hospital of INCA, Balearic Islands, Spain

Dr Tassana Boontong

President, Thailand Nursing and Midwifery Council

Dr Geertje Boschma

Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr Mark Britnell

Vice Chair and Global Health expert, KPMG UK

James Buchan

WHO Collaborating Centre, UTS

Erica Burton

Senior Policy Advisor, ICN

Erika Caballero

ICN Board member, Chile

Dr Jim Campbell

Director, Health Workforce Department, World Health Organization

Rodrigo Cardoso

Doctoral student at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar

Dr Nicholas Carleton

Scientific Director, Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment

Howard Catton

CEO, International Council of Nurses

Ana Rita Pedroso Cavaco

Portuguese Order of Nurses (Ordem dos Enfermeiros)

María Concepción Chaves

President, Federación Panamericana de Profesionales de Enfermería

Prof Ching-Min Chen

President, Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA)

Dr Yao-Mei Chen

Vice-President of Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA)

Prof Li-Chi Chiang

Vice-President of the Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA)

Prof Mary Chiarella

Professor Emerita, Susan Wakil School of Nursing, University of Sydney, Australia

Dr. Nanthaphan Chinlumprasert

Assistant Professor, former dean, Faculty of Nursing Science, Assumption University of Thailand

Dr Pamela Cipriano

President-elect, International Council of Nurses

Rt Hon. Helen Clark

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Co-Chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Dr Jill Clendon

Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington; Associate Director of Nursing and Operations Manager for Ambulatory Care, Nelson Marlborough Health, New Zealand. 

Francesca Colombo

Head, Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Dr María Cristina Cometto

Professor of Nursing, National University of Cordoba, Argentina

Michelle Danda

Nurse statements on racism and role of nurses

Dr Walter De Caro

President, CNAI Italian Nurses Association

Dr Christophe Debout

Head, Nursing Programmes, Institut de Formation Inter hospitalier Théodore Simon (IFITS), France

Dr Roopa Dhatt

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Women in Global Health

Dr Neelam Dhingra-Kumar

Unit Head, WHO Patient Safety Flagship: A Decade of Patient Safety 2020-2030

Stefania Di Mauro

Director, ICNP R&D Center, Italy

Karen Dolva

CEO and co-founder of No Isolation

Dr Delanyo Dovlo

Former Director, Health Systems and Services, WHO Regional Office for Africa

Prof Julia Downing

Chief Executive, International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN)

Dr Nuhad Yazbik Dumit

Former President, Order of Nurses, Lebanon

Lorette Dupuis

Representative for the Canadian Nurses Association, National Advisory Committee for Immunization, Canada

Ragnheiður Ósk Erlendsdóttir

Chief Nurse Officer, Reykjavik, Iceland

Dr Tarek Fathey

Group Chief Executive Officer at SEHA

Hoi Shan Fokeladeh

Policy Advisor, Nursing and Health Policy, International Council of Nurses

Dr María Eugenia Galiana-Sánchez

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Science, University of Alicante (Spain)

Dr Tejal Gandhi

Chief Safety and Transformation Officer, Press Ganey

Cristina García-Vivar

Senior Associate Professor and Associate Director, Department of Health Sciences, Public University of Navarre, Spain

Filippo Gatti

Chief Nurse, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Gülin Gedik

Mediterranean Regional Office, WHO

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States in May 2017

Edith Roth Gjevjon

Head of Institute, Lovisenberg Diaconal University College (LDUC)

Barbara Glickstein

Principal, Barbara Glickstein Strategies

Dr Shoshy Goldberg

Director, Nursing Division; National Head Nurse; senior member, management team, Israeli Ministry of Health

Thankam Gomez

Founder & President, Cygnia Healthcare and the Association of Nurse Executives, India

Dr Hildegart González, PhD

Associate Professor, Community, Maternity and Pediatric Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Navarra, Spain

Lawrence O. Gostin

Faculty Director, World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law

Dr Deborah C. Gray

Deputy Director, ICN NP/APN Network Global Academy of Research and Enterprise

Prof Mariola Głowacka

Professor, Masovian State University and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Richard Gundling

Senior Vice President, Professional Practices, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)

Prof Yanhong Guo

Director, Medical Administration, Bureau of National Health Commission, China

Dr Judith A. Halstead

former Executive Director & President, National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA)

Prof Nicholas Hardiker

ICNP Programme consultant, ICN

Dr Orlando O. Harris

Assistant Professor of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Dr Sandra Harrisson

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Canada

Dina Hidayat

Senior Clinical Transformation and Delivery Consultant – Middle East & Africa, Cerner

Corinne Hinlopen

WEMOS, Global Health Policy Researcher, Netherlands

Simon Hlungwani

President, Democratic Nursing Organization of South Africa (DENOSA)

Elizabeth Hoff

Head, Libya country office, World Health Organization

Åsa Holgersson

Chair, Västernorrland branch of Vårdförbundet, Sweden

Dr Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar

Assistant Professor, Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut

Dr Judy Honig

Professor and Vice Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing, USA

Prof. Lian-Hua Huang

ICN Board Member

Jeremy Hunt

Conservative Member of UK Parliament for South West Surrey

Daphna Hutt

Secretary, Nurses’ Group, European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

Dr Kumiko Ii

Vice President, Japanese Nursing Association President, Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Japan

Elizabeth Iro

Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization

Louise Jackson

RN, Malaffi, Clinical Informatics and Adoption Specialist

Mariam Jalabi

Representative of the Syrian Opposition Coalition to the United Nations and co-founder of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement

Michelle Bachelet Jeria

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; former President of Chile

Dr Cheryl B. Jones

Sarah Frances Russel Distinguished Professor of Nursing; Director, Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing innovation, University of North Carolina, USA

Catherine Kane

Technical Officer, Health Workforce Dept., WHO

Prof Rozina Karmaliani

Dean & Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Annette Kennedy

President, International Council of Nurses

Michelle Kenyon

President, European Blood and Marrow Transplant Nurses’ Group

Ban Ki-Moon

Former Secretary General UN, currently Chairman of Presidential National Council on Climate and Air Quality

Dr Yasir Khan

Lead Physician Executive – Middle East and Africa, Cerner

Annika M Kisch

Chair Research Committee, Nursing Group, European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplatation (EBMT), Sweden

Dr Hans H. Kluge

WHO EURO Regional Director

Dr Satoru Komatsumoto

Vice-President, Japan Hospital Association; Chief Executive Officer, Director, Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital, Tochigi, Japan

Anna La Torre

President, European Association for the History of Nursing (EAHN)

Margrieta Langins

Nursing and Midwifery Policy Adviser, Health Workforce and Service Delivery, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Lill Sverresdatter Larsen

President, Norwegian Nurses Organisation

Ronald Lavater

Chief Executive Officer, International Hospital Federation

Jocelyn Leeming

RN, Malaffi, Clinical Informatics and Adoption Specialist

Dr Daniela Lehwaldt

Incumbent Chair, ICN NP / APN Network

Dr Mei-Nan Liao

Vice President of Taiwan Nurses Association (TWNA)

Lisa Little, RN, BNSc, MHS

CEO, Lisa Little Consulting, Board of Directors, International Council of Nurses

Felicity Machoka

Hospital Administrator Specialist, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Dr María Teresa Maldonado

President, Mexican Federation of Nursing Colleges

Kwaku Agyeman Manu

Minister of Health, Ghana

Prof Mashudu Maselesele

Mthatha Campus Rector, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa

Dr Diana Mason

Senior Policy Service Professor, Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement, George Washington University School of Nursing

Ismaila Mbaye

President, National Association of Registered Nurses of the State of Senegal (ANIIDES)

Dr Nomafrench Mbombo

Western Cape Minister of Health, South Africa

Eva Mensah

Director for Nursing and Midwifery, Ghana Health Service

Dr Carey McCarthy

Technical Officer, Health Workforce Department, World Health Organization

Amanda McClelland

Senior Vice President, Prevent Epidemics Unit, Resolve to Save Lives

Dr Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani

Professor, Department of gerontological homecare & long-term care nursing, University of Tokyo, Japan

Khumo Modisaeman

Botswana

Dr Karen S. Moore

member of the ICN NP/APNN Core Steering Group

Prof Ernesto Morais

Associate Professor, Porto Nursing School, Portugal

Ntombifikile (Fikile) Mtshali

Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Mary Mungai

Executive Committee Member, International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists

Dr Madeline A. Naegle

Professor Emerita, Rory Meyers College of Nursing

Sideeka Narayan

Consultant, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunization (VPI), WHO Regional Office for Europe

Silingene Ngcob

Nurse Academic, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Dr Lisa Nissen

Professor and Head, School of Clinical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology

Annette Mwansa Nkowane

RN, RM, Cert.Mgt; BSc.(CHN), MA

Felix Nyante

Registrar,Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana

Christopher O'Donnell

Queensland State Chair, Australian College of Nursing

Idalmis G. Infante Ochoa

National President, Cuban Society of Nurses

Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo

President, Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association

Morkor Newman Owiredu

Medical officer, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI programmes, World Health Organization

Elizabeth Oywer

East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing Kenya

Dr Irina Papieva

Technical Officer, Patient Safety Flagship, WHO Headquarters

Dr Hyeoun-Ae Park

Professor, College of Nursing and Multidisciplinary Medical Informatics Program, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi

Nursing Now Challenge Global Solutions Initiative (NNCGSI) winner and Manager for Collaboration and Development of Nursing Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Jeroen Peters

Programme Director, Master Advanced Nursing Practice, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Dr Cynthia Pine

Visiting Lead Practitioner in Dental Research and Education, Oracle Dental Group at Oracle Dental Group

Floriana Pinto

Critical area nurse, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Susan Poirier

Administrator, Dundas Manor Long Term Care Home, Canada

Prof Lisa Bayliss Pratt

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Coventry University, and Programme Director, Nursing Now Challenge

Dr Natasha Prodan-Bhalla

Chief Nurse, Ministry of Health, British Columbia, Canada

Kristine Qureshi

Programme Director, Leadership for Change

Prof Dame Anne Marie Rafferty

Kings College, London

Richard Ricciardi

President, Sigma Theta Tau International; Professor, George Washington University, USA

Marianne Riesen

Nurse Anesthetist, Switzerland

Dr Leticia San Martín Rodríguez

Vice President, Official College of Nursing of Navarre

Dr Billy Rosa

Chief Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Prof John-Arne Røttingen

Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway.

Jackie Rowles

President, International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (IFNA)

Dr Sanduk Ruit

Executive Director, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, Nepal

Kim Ryan

Mental health nursing consultant , Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

Dr Maria Ryan

VP and Chief Clinical Officer at Colgate-Palmolive

Guy Ryder

Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Dr Vathsala Sadan

Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Development, College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Rashid Salim

Chairperson, Kenya Student and Novice Nurses

Julia Samuelson

Nurse epidemiologist

Dr Enrique Castro-Sánchez

City University of London, NHE England/Improvement; Imperial College London

Dr Hiromi Sanada

Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Dr Silvia Santana

President, College of Nurses of Uruguay

Dr Madrean Schober

President, Schober Global Healthcare Consulting

Supanee Senadisai

President, Nurses’ Association of Thailand

Dr José Luis Cobos Serrano

3rd Vice president, Spanish General Council of Nursing

Franklin Shaffer

CGFNS, President & CEO, USA

Yoko Shimada

Director, Nursing Division, Health Policy Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

Dr Sung Rae Shin

ICN Board Member

Hon Murray Sinclair

Lead, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canada

Dr Winnie K.W. So

President-Elect, International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care

Wali Shah

Reverse Poet

Dr Judith Shamian

ICN President Emerita, Canada

Me Durga Laxmi Shrestha

Nursing director, Bheri Hospital, Nepal

Cecilia Sironi

former President, Consociazione nazionale delle Associazoni infermiere/i

Prof Dr Rr Tutik Sri Hariyati

Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia

David Stewart

Associate Director (consultant), Nursing and Health Policy, International Council of Nurses

Dr Marsal Stoll

Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)

Ai Tanimizu

WHO, Technical Officer (Nursing), WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia (SEARO), Japan

Edel Marlen Taraldsen

Student President, Norwegian Nursing Organization

Dr Asta Thoroddsen

Director, ICNP R&D Centre, Iceland; Editor-in-chief, ICNP Editorial Board

Prof Sheila Tlou

Co-Chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition

Vicky Treacy-Wong

Lead, Nursing Leadership Group, Médecins Sans Frontières

David Abokavi

Nurse Recrutier (Alliance Certified firm) Kenya, Nigeria, etc.

Dr Shwu-feng Tsay

Director-General, Department of Nursing and Health Care, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Amelia Afuha’amango Tuipulotu

Minister of Health, Kingdom of Tonga

Joe Tye

CEO & Head Coach, Values Coach Inc.; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa College of Public Health

Dr Amanda Ullman

Director, Paediatric Teaching and Research Network

Lauren Underwood

Registered nurse and United States Congresswoman

Dr Eugenia Urra

Secretary of International affairs, College of Nurses of Chile

Dr Marie Chantal Uwimana

Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Rwanda

Dr Marjukka Vallimies-Patomäki

Former Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove

COVID-19 Technical Lead, World Health Organization

Helen Vandenberg

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Peggy Vidot

Registered nurse and midwife; Minister of Health of Seychelles

Professor Sophia Vijayananthan

Professor and Nurse Manager, College of Nursing, CMC Vellore, India

Sasha Volgina

Programme manager, GNP+, Netherlands

Prof Debbie White

Dean, University of Calgary in Qatar

Dr Kathy J. Wheeler

Co-Chair, Health Policy Subgroup, ICN NP/APN Network

Kate White

Head, Emergency Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Chandrika N Wijeratne

Vice Chancellor University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Christina Wille

Director and Founding Member, Insecurity Insight

Rita Wilson

eHealth Program Manager, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, Canada

Ernst Wisse

Médecins du Monde

Philomina A. N. Woolley

Deputy Registrar operations, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Ghana

Dr Ying Wu

ICN Board Member (China)

Dr Lydia Wytenbroek

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada

WU Xinjuan

President, Chinese Nursing Association

Prof Patsy Yates

President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Dr Tassana Boontong

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