Trustee
Elizabeth Adams, former President of the European Federation of Nurse Associations (36 nursing associations representing over 3 million nurses in Europe) and Adjunct Associate Professor with Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She is an Honorary Fellow Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and Director and Board Member of the Institute of Public Administration Ireland.
She currently serves on a number of global advisory groups/boards including: Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy Strategic Oversight Committee; Nursing Now Challenge; Queen’s Institute of District Nurses in Ireland; Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition; and the Committee on Human Rights U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
As a member of the Management Team and Director of Professional Development, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation she developed and delivered education programmes for over 40,000 nurses and midwives and successfully project managed the new Richmond Education and Event Centre. Prior to this, as the Consultant, Nursing and Health Policy with the International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland she developed programme areas related to socio-economic welfare, occupational health and safety, positive practice environments, violence, human resources development, international migration, leadership, older person care, environmental issues and disaster nursing. She was the Director of the International Centre of Human Resources for Nursing and Director of the WHO Global Health Workforce Alliance, International Positive Practice Environments Campaign.
Prior to this she served nationally as Director of Nursing and Midwifery for the Health Service Executive in Ireland. This role included leading and implementing nurse and midwife prescribing nationally. Over her nursing career she has worked for both the Department of Health in Ireland and Western Australia. While in the Department in Western Australia she helped to manage significant health reform and was instrumental in leading the drafting and implementation of legislation and regulations to establish the nurse and midwife practitioner role in Western Australia. In addition, she has worked for the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery and in clinical and management positions with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Ireland.
