David Edvardsson
Professor Umeå University, Sweden and La Trobe University, Australia
David Edvardsson is a Professor of Nursing at La Trobe University, Australia and Umea University, Sweden, and the and Associate Dean (Academic) at La Trobe University School of Nursing and Midwifery. His fields of expertise span nursing theory and practice, person-centred care, care of older people, cognitive and chronic illness and nursing philosophy. He has published widely in the fields of nursing, public health and medicine, and has ongoing research collaborations globally.
José Miguel
Professor of Research and Evidence Based Health Care Faculty of Health Sciences. University of Málaga (Spain)
Prof. José Miguel Morales Asencio is a Professor of Research Methods and Evidence Based Health Care at University of Málaga (Spain) from 2009, where he is also Deputy Dean for Research and Coordinator of the PhD Programme on Health Sciences. He was Head of the Department of Nursing from 2010 to 2018.
He has both Degrees in Nursing and Anthropology and a PhD on Health
Economics. He is also Visiting Professor at University of Hertfordshire (UK) since 2012, and former Lecturer of the Andalusian School of Public Health (2000-2009). He is Member of ICCHNR and of the European Academy of Nursing Sciences.
He leads the research group “Chronicity, Dependency, Nursing & Health Services”
belonging to the Institute of Biomedical Research of Málaga, which carries out research on interventions and models of care for people with chronic conditions and their family caregivers, clinical safety management in this population and development of evidencebased guidance to provide services to them.
He has published 136 papers in journals with impact factor (h-index: 19), and he hassupervised 49 doctoral PhD students. He has been consultant for the Spanish and the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Health, and evaluator of the 7th FP Research Programme of the European Commission.
Azita Emami
PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, FAAN Robert G. and Jean A. Reid Executive Dean UW School of Nursing, USA
Azita Emami is Executive Dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing. Dr. Emami’s career has spanned multiple countries, as has her advocacy on behalf of global equity in access to healthcare and an expanded role for the nursing profession in delivering primary care. She has been a national leader in developing efforts directed at diversity, equity and inclusion including establishing the nation’s first Center for Antiracism in Nursing.
Dr. Emami’s research has resulted in more than 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals nationally and internationally. This body of work reflects her research interests in cross-cultural care, elder and dementia care, the development of cultural competence, and the evolving policy and clinical roles of nurses nationally and internationally. She maintains an active research schedule with collaborations around the world.
Katarina Hjelm
Professor in Community Nursing, Uppsala University, Sweden
Katarina Hjelm, is a professor in Caring Science at Department of Public Health and Caring Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a diabetes specialist nurse and nurse tutor with a PhD in Community Medicine. Her main research areas are: Migration and health, Chronic Disease Management (diabetes, leg ulcers, COPD, Stroke, IBD) and International Health. Influence of migration on health were studied in the dissertation. Studies on beliefs about health/illness and influence on health related behaviour in migrants of different origin with different types/severity of diabetes, particularly gestational diabetes, have followed. As a scientific leader projects have been run on e.g chronic disease management, health development, care of migrants in psychiatry and emergency care, elderly migrants, and communication in health care. International studies on chronic disease management have been made in UK, Zimbabwe, Uganda, China, and Oman. Big public health problems are investigated and focus on “Health” being a key concept in Nursing. Development of an optimal health care organisation with best possible care aimed at promoting health in the individual, irrespective of cultural background, is the least common denominator for the projects.
She has a vast experience of working with both qualitative and quantitative research methods for collecting and analysing data, particularly in migrants of different origin, as well as teaching in Nursing on all levels from postgraduate to PhD-level.
