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Nurse educators and inter-professional colleagues play an instrumental role in achieving health equity and social justice for people across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities and religion. The National League for Nursing and Walden University College of Nursing's new Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change is uniquely designed to develop these individuals to become leaders of social change who can address the impact of structural racism, socioeconomic status, environment, education, adequate housing, and food insecurity on health and wellbeing.
Nurse educators and inter-professional colleagues play an instrumental role in achieving health equity and social justice for people across race, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities and religion. The National League for Nursing and Walden University College of Nursing's new Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change is uniquely designed to develop these individuals to become leaders of social change who can address the impact of structural racism, socioeconomic status, environment, education, adequate housing, and food insecurity on health and wellbeing.
Cultivating appropriate leadership competencies to integrate social change into their programs
Integrating social determinants of health and social change into curricula
Engaging in research and other scholarly activities related to social determinants of health and social change with a view toward broad dissemination
Developing leaders and catalysts of social change