Strengthening Research Capacity and Disseminating New Findings in Nursing and Public Health (PDF)

Hema Malini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Andalas since 1999. Her works focus on the development of health education program especially for self-management of people with chronic diseases and mixed method design in nursing research. She graduated from Monash University for her Master and Doctorate program. Her current research is in the development of diabetes prevention program and causal modelling for linking the stress, efficacy and self-care among people with diabetes.

Khatijah Lim Abdullah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine; University of Malaya. She has obtained both her BSc in Nursing Studies and Masters in Health Services Management from the University of Manchester UK and her Doctorate from the University of Southampton, UK. Her current research interests are in inter-professional education, nursing practice, patient shared decision making, particularly in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), patient safety and clinical leadership.

Judith McFarlane, RN, Dr.P.H., is a professor of nursing and the Parry Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Texas Woman's University. She speaks with Pulse about her passion for helping people, the roundabout way she began to study violence against women and a new smartphone app to help identify risk for abused women and their children.