Our archive of regional and global activities and research projects conducted by the Centre. The archives date back to 2004, detailing key contributors of each project.
2018
Global Network Side Meetings
Panel Discussion WHO Headquarters
Secretariat for the GN WHO CC
Health Workforce Strategic Plan for Kiribati
2016
SDGs in the Asia Pacific Region
International Confederation of Midwives Meeting
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer, Professor Pat Brodie
2015
Sigma Theta Tau 43rd Biennial Convention
Quality of Care through the Respect, Safety and Empowerment of Midwifery Personnel: Systematic Review of Interventions to Overcome Barriers to the Provision of Quality of Care by Midwifery Personnel
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer
4th Arab States Midwifery Conference
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer
Development of a Regional Roadmap on Strengthening Midwifery to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer, Florence West
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Inaugural Stakeholder's Engagement Meeting
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer, Professor Pat Brodie
Asia Pacific Midwifery Workforce Workshop
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer, Florence West
PNG Schools of Nursing and Community Health Worker Principals meeting
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Jodi Thiessen
Consultancy with the School of Nursing, Fiji National University
WHO CC involvement: Professor Di Brown
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Jodi Thiessen WHO Expert Advisory Meeting WHO CC involvement: Professor Jam Buchan
2014
Longitudinal Study of Midwifery Graduates in PNG
WHO CC involvement: Alison Moores, Professor Caroline Homer, Amanda Neill
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey The Centre for Health Services Management WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Amanda Neill, James Buchan
2013
The Tenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting WHO CC involvement: Partnership with SPCNMOA Scaling-up nursing through global nursing/midwifery faculty development WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly Health Professional Education in the WHO Western Pacific RegionWHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Michele Rumsey Understanding health labour market in the Western Pacific Region. A contract with WHO WPRO
WHO CC involvement: Prof. James Buchan Pacific plan review
WHO CC involvement: Collaboration with SPCNMOA 'Development futures: Alternative pathways to end poverty' conference
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Amanda Neill, Adj Prof Pat Brodie, Jodi Thiessen The International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne
WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Michele Rumsey, Professor Caroline Homer Revitalization of primary health care in Samoa
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer, Associate Professor Joanne Gray, Rachel Smith Short course in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer Study and workshop Building Reproductive Health Research and Audit Capacity and Activity in the Pacific
WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer Launch of Hong Kong Polytechnic University WHO Collaborating Centre
October 23, Hong Kong
WHO CC involvement: Invited to prestigious launch WHO Asia Pacific Emergency & Disaster Nursing Network APEDNN
WHO CC involvement:: Presenting paper WHO/WPRO Country HRH Laos project - incentives WHO CC involvement:: Country Consultation Retaining Health Workers in Remote Areas - Lao PDR and Cambodia
WHO CC involvement: Professor James Buchan Maternal and Reproductive Health World Bank Praxis Discussion Series WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Pacific Society for Reproductive health WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer, Prof Pat Brodie Women Deliver Conference
WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer, Prof Pat Brodie, Dr Angela Dawson
2012
Reproductive Health Training Unit PNG, Monitoring and Evaluation WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer, Michele Rumsey, Jodi Thiessen Papua New Guinea Schools of Nursing Audit - AusAIDWHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey
Papua New Guinea Community Health Worker Schools Audit - AusAIDWHO CC involvement: Associate Professor Lin Lock World Bank Praxis Discussion Series
WHO CC involvement:: Michele Rumsey WHO WPRO Nursing Databanks
WHO CC involvement:: Michele Rumsey, Jodi Thiessen, Ranira Moodley Is Global Health in Crisis? UNSW
WHO CC involvement:: Michele Rumsey Lowy Institute visiting PNG parliamentarian Dame Carol Kidu
WHO CC involvement:: Michele Rumsey, Patricia Brodie, Monica Sanderson, Jodi Thiessen Forum: The future of the Pacific matters to us. Be part of the conversation.
WHO CC involvement:: Michele Rumsey, Monica Sanderson, Stephanie Fletcher, Amanda Neal Asian Development Bank Seminar 2012
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Research literacy and capacity building in low income countries WHO CC involvement: Professor Jon Adams Global Consultation on Producing and Developing an Appropriate Midwifery Workforce for Low and Middle Income Countries. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland WHO CC involvement: Caroline Homer Meeting with Myanmar's Minister of Health
WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer
2011
Maternal and Child Health Initiative Papua New GuineaWHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer, Prof Pat Brodie, Michele Rumsey, Felicity Copeland, Monica Sanderson Quality Improvement in Nursing and Midwifery
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Assoc. Professor Lin Lock, Jodi Thiessen Understanding the Pacific's adaptive capacity to emergencies in the context of climate change
WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Professor Jim Buchan, Michele Rumsey, Stephanie Fletcher, Jodi Thiessen, Monica Sanderson and UTS Institute of Sustainable Futures WHO Laos: Health worker incentives
WHO CC involvement: Professor Jim Buchan WHO Cambodia: Health worker incentives
WHO CC involvement: Professor Jim Buchan Health Workforce Research and Advice
WHO CC involvement: Professor Jim Buchan AusAID ALA Fellowship Awards
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, Professor James Buchan, Professor Caroline Homer, Assoc. Professor Lin Lock in partnership with SPCNMOA WHO Informal Consultation on Quality Improvement and Faculty Development in Nursing and Midwifery Education WHO CC involvement:Professor John Daly, Michele Rumsey, Jodi Thiessen Scaling-Up Nursing through Global Nursing/Midwifery Faculty Development
WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Professor Trish Davidson, Professor Debra Jackson, Assistant Professor Lin Lock, Michele Rumsey, Jan Sayers (UWS), Rebecca Disler, Jodi Thiessen Maternal and Child Health Initiative Papua New Guinea
WHO CC involvement: Prof Caroline Homer, Prof Pat Brodie, Michele Rumsey, Felicity Copeland, Monica Sanderson Technical Assistance for Emergency and Disaster Nursing, Ministry of Health Samoa
WHO CC involvement: Lisa Conlon and Dr Lesley Seaton Western Pacific Region Human Resources for Health (WPR HRH) Action Framework; MoHProf consultation in Brussels
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Midwifery an International Journal, Vol 27, issue 3, June 2011 (PDF, 283kB) World Bank Praxis Discussion Series
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey and Jodi Thiessen Global Health Workforce Alliance Global meeting on HRH WHO CC involvement: Professor James Buchan Recruiting and retaining health workers in remote areas - Pacific Island case-studies WHO CC involvement: James Buchan, John Connell, Michele Rumsey Launch of Hong Kong Polytechnic University WHO Collaborating Centre
WHO CC involvement: Invited to prestigious launch WHO Asia Pacific Emergency & Disaster Nursing Network APEDNN WHO CC involvement: Presenting paper
2010
Asian Development Bank (ADB) roundtable on maternal and child healthWHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Associate Professor Jennifer Fenwick World Bank SWAP Review of Obstetric and Midwifery Care in Samoa
WHO CC involvement: Professor Caroline Homer and A/Professor Andrew Bisits Synthesis of evidence on strategies applied to optimize health worker roles (task shifting/sharing) to address MDG 5 in Small Island Developing States
WHO CC involvement: Professor Jim Buchan, Professor Christine Duffield, Dr Angela Dawson UNSW Faculty of Medicine/ AusAID Human Resources for Health (HRH) Knowledge Hub
WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Professor James Buchan and Michele Rumsey WHO Informal Consultation on Quality Improvement and Faculty Development in Nursing and Midwifery Education
WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly Malaysian Ministry of Health Nurse Educators Study Tour
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, Diane Pelletier and Professor Denise Dignam Publication in Global Network of WHO CC links Magazine
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Improving the Quality of Disaster and Emergency Care and Patient Safety Overall WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Lesley Seaton and Professor Christine Duffield AusAID Lowy Institute for International Policy think tank. Advancing Innovative Development and Aid strategies in the Asian-Pacific Acceleration Millennium Development Goals
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey WHO CC Global Network Meetings WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, and Professor Christine Duffield International Council of Nurses (ICN) Triad held prior to WHA June Geneva Switzerland
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Forum for Government Chief Nurses and Midwives, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, Professor Christine Duffield and Professor Jill White Facilitation of Asia Pacific Emergency and Disaster Nursing Network (APEDNN) meeting and capacity building workshops WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Discussion paper Maternal, neonatal and reproductive health work force in the Asia-Pacific region
2009
European Commission Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf)WHO CC involvement: Professor John Daly, Professor James Buchan, Michele Rumsey and Jodi Thiessen WHO Pacific Human Resources for Health Alliance (PHRHA)
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey Malaysian Ministry of Health Study Tour
WHO CC involvement: Study Tour AusAID ALA Fellowships
WHO CC involvement: Organiser in partnership with SPCNMOA World Health Day 'Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies'
WHO CC involvement: Slideshow in main UTS building AusAID ALA Fellowship Awards WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, Professor Denise Dignam, Marie Heartfield, Gerard Goodwin-Moore, Professor Christine Duffield, Professor James Buchan, Professor Caroline Homer in partnership with SPCNMOA WHO Global Leadership Collaborative (GLC)
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey, Professor John Daly, Professor Christine Duffield and Professor Jill White
Download the Roles and Responsibilities of Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer (PDF, 2.6MB). WHO Emergency and disaster nursing and community health workers - pilot training program Papua New Guinea
WHO CC involvement: Lisa Conlon, and Lesley Seaton Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) meeting WHO CC involvement: Participant and presenter James Buchan Informal meeting on the Implementation of the Pacific Human Resources for Health Alliance (PHRHA)
WHO CC involvement: Michele Rumsey invited to the meeting as an observer UNSW AusAID Knowledge Hub - Advisory Board
WHO CC involvement: Invited member of Advisory Board International Council of Nurses (ICN)
WHO CC involvement: Presenting paper on WHO project Human Resource for Health (HRH) Minimum Data Set (MDS) WHO/WPRO Meeting on Regional Strategy and Initiatives on HRH
WHO CC involvement: Participation PNG Disaster & Emergency Nursing and Community Health Workers Program
WHO CC involvement: Lisa Conlon developed and implemented pilot program with the assistance of Lesley Seaton
2008
South Pacific Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officer Alliance SPCNMOAWHOCC role: Secretariat to SPCNMOA steering committee and Educational Task Force (ETF) Formulation of an emergency-disaster nursing curricular conceptual framework 2008-2009
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia The Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services (SDNM)
Location: Teleconference working group WHO Human Resources for Health Minimum Data Set (HRH MDS) Project Phase II
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Country visits Samoa and Vanuatu Ministry of Health Samoa Study Tours
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia Participation in Global Network Meeting Ribeirao Preto Brazil 2008
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia WHO Shandong Meeting October 2008 - Innovative Emergency and Disaster Nursing Education and Training - United for Action
Location: Shandong University, Jinan, China Credentialing of Mental Health Nurse Specialist Practice 2008
Location: National University of Samoa Asian Pacific Research Conference and WHO Western Pacific Regional Office Meetings
Location: University of Philippines and WHO WP Regional Office Manila University of New South Wales AusAID HRH Knowledge Hub
Location: University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Project: Improving the Quality of Disaster and Emergency Nursing Care, China Ministry of Health, Nursing Division, Department of Medical Administration 2008
Location: Ministry of Health, Chengdu, China WHO Regional credentialling program for maternity teachers in Samoa
Location: National University of Samoa WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development Launch
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia South Pacific Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Alliance (SPNMOA) Meeting
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Australia The Impact of the 2004/05 New Zealand Nurses Employment Agreement
Location: New Zealand Inaugural Global Alliance Nursing Education and Scholarship (GANES)
Location: Toronto WHO Papua New Guinea nurses work value study
Location: Papua New Guinea in collaboration with Australian Nursing Federation and Papua New Guinea Nursing Association Memorandum of Understanding with the National University of Timor Leste WHO CC involvement: