Meet one of the Sisters' favorite behind the scenes colleagues - Dr. Unarose Hogan. From Ireland across Europe, much of Africa and into South East Asia, Unarose supports colleagues to prevent infection even when health systems appear to barely have enough to get by.
Unarose Hogan, (PhD, MSc, BSc, R.N.) has spent the past seventeen years working in global health security, infection control, academia and clinical practice; primarily living in Sub Saharan Africa but also working in Central and South East Asia and Eastern Europe. Presently she is an Infection Control Advisor with Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization operational in 90 countries.
At the start of COVID-19, she was working with WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, focusing on hospital readiness for COVID-19 in the EURO region, specifically in Armenia. Formerly she has worked in several positions with WHO (in Albania/ Geneva) and served as Infection Control Advisor for Medical Operations during the Ebola Response with United Nations Mission Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER, Sierra Leone).
She has worked as an infection control lecturer in the school of nursing and midwifery at the University of East Anglia, UK. She holds an adjunct Faculty position with the school of medicine, the University of Limerick on a Master of Public Health. She has published broadly in operational research in low-income countries.
Unarose is a board member at the Irish Global Health Network.
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Links for our most curious listeners:
Global Alliance of Nurses and Midwives(GANM)
African Infection Control Network (AICN)
Asia Pacific Society for Infection Control (APSIC)
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)