Mark your calendars for the Center for Global Health Nursing’s annual Go Global event! This in-person celebration will include a light lunch. This year, the theme for the main speakers will be “Rural Health.”
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026
Time: 11:00a.m. – 2:00p.m.
Location: Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) 101
Program includes:
“The Rural Mandate: Overcoming Urban Bias to Eradicate Healthcare Disparities”
Dr. Sarah Shannon, Dean and Professor
Mark & Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Montana State University
“When Access Isn’t Enough: Listening to Communities from Rural Washington to the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
Emily Gibson, MPH, RN, BSN
Manager of Research, Evidence & Learning at VillageReach
“Art as Intergenerational Knowledge in Traditional Midwifery in the Colombian Pacific”
Dr. Daniel Suárez-Baquero, Assistant Professor
Child, Family & Population Health Nursing
United Nations Update
Marin Strong, UW SoN PhD Candidate
United Nations Youth Representative for Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing
Lightning Talks
Jay Ward, DNP Student
Charles Kwanin, PhD Student
This event will also include updates from other global health nursing students and faculty. It will allow attendees to view poster presentations from our Global Health Nursing Certificate students and 2025 study abroad scholarship recipients.
