Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx
PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSADr. Sullivan-Marx is an extraordinary nurse leader whose 51 year career path has focused on the advancement of nursing practice locally and globally, through education, research, practice, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international partnerships.
Since 2012 when Dr. Sullivan-Marx started her deanship at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing (Meyers),Meyers’ work has spanned over 25 countries in global practice, education and research initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa. Over time, Meyers could have over 20 faculty with students engaged in various global initiatives.
Dr. Marx-Sullivan encourages her faculty to deliver high-quality programs through collaboration with a host of international partners from ministries of health, to nursing and midwifery licensure boards, to universities, local NGOs and sponsoring agencies. Meyers core capacities at home in NY are mirrored in these same competencies it has brought to the global arena in various areas including health workforce development, HIV/AID and infectious disease, NCDs, healthy aging and geriatric nursing, maternal and child health, etc.
A few examples: In Liberia, Dean Sullivan-Marx’s faculty and staff worked closely with the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery (LBNM) to update and revise three national nursing and midwifery curriculum, to bring quality continuous professional development modules to the forefront of license renewal for nurses and midwives, and worked with the LBNM and its registrar partner in Ghana to bring the licensure examination for nurses and midwives to an online platform, only the second country to do so in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
In Lithuania, Meyers has collaborated with the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences to develop a masters program nursing curriculum and roll out the program with anew scope of practice for Lithuanian nurses. Together, they successfully created a curriculum based on the US model, but within the context of Lithuania’s own healthcare system.
Since 2015, a total of 63 students have graduated from the program. In Rwanda, NYU Meyers partnered with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, various Rwandan healthcare facilities and the University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwifery, over a ten-year period to build out the Rwandan health workforce and ensure high quality of care and improved health outcomes.
As part of this initiative, starting in 2015, Meyers worked closely with its partners to develop and implement a comprehensive master’s of nursing program at the university, in eight different sub-specialty areas including: Pediatrics, Neonatology, Nephrology, Oncology, Medical-Surgical, Peri-operative care, Emergency and Critical Care, and Education, Leadership and Management.
Each of these programs is the only one of its kind offered in Rwanda, and in many cases throughout East Africa. To date, over 200 students have graduated from the Master’s program. The program continues to have a tremendous impact at the national level and the scope of nursing practice in Rwanda. Many graduates have gone on to teach within the graduate programs, others have gone out to their PhD and others continue making a difference at clinical sites.
– Deb
Eileen’s story:
Dean Sullivan-Marx places global development alongside belonging and innovation as key strategic pillars. She has grown NYU nursing global education for students by working with global partners and NYU’s global campuses to advance nursing in Lithuania, Liberia, China, Ghana and Rwanda, building on her career work in India, Spain, and the UAE.
In Lithuania and Rwanda, NYU nursing’s global work focused on initial development of advanced practice nursing. In partnership with the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and the University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwifery, since 2015 over265 nurses have graduated from these newly developed programs.
Dean Sullivan-Marx has worked with NYU Global’s 15 sites, particularly NYU Accra, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Florence, and Buenos Aires to strategically and seamlessly build education opportunities. Moreover, the NYU Meyers WHO Collaborating Center in Nursing and Aging has focusedon the PAHO region to share aging care education in the Caribbean region.
Dr. Sullivan-Marx is an extraordinary nurse leader whose 51 year career path has focused on the advancement of nursing practice locally and globally, through education, research, practice, interdisciplinary collaborations, and international partnerships.
Since 2012 when Dr. Sullivan-Marx started her deanship at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing (Meyers),Meyers’ work has spanned over 25 countries in global practice, education and research initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa. Over time, Meyers could have over 20 faculty with students engaged in various global initiatives.
Dr. Marx-Sullivan encourages her faculty to deliver high-quality programs through collaboration with a host of international partners from ministries of health, to nursing and midwifery licensure boards, to universities, local NGOs and sponsoring agencies. Meyers core capacities at home in NY are mirrored in these same competencies it has brought to the global arena in various areas including health workforce development, HIV/AID and infectious disease, NCDs, healthy aging and geriatric nursing, maternal and child health, etc.
A few examples: In Liberia, Dean Sullivan-Marx’s faculty and staff worked closely with the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery (LBNM) to update and revise three national nursing and midwifery curriculum, to bring quality continuous professional development modules to the forefront of license renewal for nurses and midwives, and worked with the LBNM and its registrar partner in Ghana to bring the licensure examination for nurses and midwives to an online platform, only the second country to do so in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
In Lithuania, Meyers has collaborated with the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences to develop a masters program nursing curriculum and roll out the program with anew scope of practice for Lithuanian nurses. Together, they successfully created a curriculum based on the US model, but within the context of Lithuania’s own healthcare system.
Since 2015, a total of 63 students have graduated from the program. In Rwanda, NYU Meyers partnered with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, various Rwandan healthcare facilities and the University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwifery, over a ten-year period to build out the Rwandan health workforce and ensure high quality of care and improved health outcomes.
As part of this initiative, starting in 2015, Meyers worked closely with its partners to develop and implement a comprehensive master’s of nursing program at the university, in eight different sub-specialty areas including: Pediatrics, Neonatology, Nephrology, Oncology, Medical-Surgical, Peri-operative care, Emergency and Critical Care, and Education, Leadership and Management.
Each of these programs is the only one of its kind offered in Rwanda, and in many cases throughout East Africa. To date, over 200 students have graduated from the Master’s program. The program continues to have a tremendous impact at the national level and the scope of nursing practice in Rwanda. Many graduates have gone on to teach within the graduate programs, others have gone out to their PhD and others continue making a difference at clinical sites.
– Deb
Eileen’s story:
Dean Sullivan-Marx places global development alongside belonging and innovation as key strategic pillars. She has grown NYU nursing global education for students by working with global partners and NYU’s global campuses to advance nursing in Lithuania, Liberia, China, Ghana and Rwanda, building on her career work in India, Spain, and the UAE.
In Lithuania and Rwanda, NYU nursing’s global work focused on initial development of advanced practice nursing. In partnership with the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and the University of Rwanda School of Nursing and Midwifery, since 2015 over265 nurses have graduated from these newly developed programs.
Dean Sullivan-Marx has worked with NYU Global’s 15 sites, particularly NYU Accra, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Florence, and Buenos Aires to strategically and seamlessly build education opportunities. Moreover, the NYU Meyers WHO Collaborating Center in Nursing and Aging has focusedon the PAHO region to share aging care education in the Caribbean region.
