The Lillian Carter CenterforGlobal Health &Social Responsibility
Named for President Jimmy Carter's Mother, Miss Lillian, The Lillian Carter Center for Global Health & Social Responsibility, dedicated in 2001, has a rich history of educational, practice and research offerings.
At NHWSN, we are preparing nurses to become globally engaged citizens and The Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (LCC) serves as the hub of global education, research, practice, and engagement.
Mission
The LCC's mission is to help improve the health of vulnerable people worldwide through nursing education, research, practice, and policy.
We define global health broadly, encompassing both global research outside of the United States and local research in the United States with immigrant/vulnerable communities. The LCC ensures that global research and health, service learning, and social responsibility are infused throughout the curriculum and educational experience for our students.
Watch the 20th Anniversary Celebration and read up about the center below.
Three Strategies
Nursing Research in Global Health
Our focus on internationally oriented nursing research or research collaborations including the NHWSN International Nursing Research Conference
Service Learning & Social Responsibility Globally & Locally
Students are provided and encouraged to explore opportunities for service learning as part of their nursing education by traveling domestically or internationally to one of our partner locations. Some of our long-standing partnerships include the Farmworker Family Health Program in Moultrie, Georgia, the Clarkston Community Health Center, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Ethiopia.
Global Engagement
The LCC works in partnership with local, national and global organizations – many headquartered here in Atlanta and with the on campus resources the Emory Global Health Institute and the Emory Office of Global Strategies and Initiatives.
The Lillian Carter Center (LCC) serves as the hub of global engagement in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN). To expand the NHWSN's global influence, dividing its efforts into three classifications, each addressing a specific topic.
The concentration of efforts into these three complementary components support the School of Nursing's vision of achieving consistent recognition as one of the world's leading nursing schools and improving the school's position in international rankings that evaluate nursing schools from all nations for global reputation and impact. The NHWSN builds on the present strength in research, its strong overall reputation and its effective existing program to encourage and support outbound student engagement.
Meet the Team
As Chief of Staff and Associate Dean, Tricia Benson oversees the Office of the Dean and is the primary liaison to leadership on strategic and operational issues across the school. She is responsible for the executive oversight and management of facility operations, communications and marketing, and school administration. Tricia was instrumental in the planning, construction and opening of the Emory Nursing Learning Center, which includes the school’s state of the art simulation center.
Tricia earned a master’s degree in nursing from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University. Prior to the School of Nursing, Tricia held several roles in administration and philanthropy including Director of the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Senior Director of Planned Giving, Annual Fund and Direct Response at the national office of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Director of Foundation Relations at the Human Rights Campaign and Program Director at Camp Sunshine.
Lisa Nunez is the Director for The Lillian Carter Center (LCC) at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (SON). Lisa continues to enhance and advance the work of Global Engagement and Service-Learning with our international partnerships.
In this role, she will assist in creating the strategic planning, development and implementation of global programs. She will continue to support international partnership development and management that aligns with the Mission and Vision of the School of Nursing. Lisa continues to collaborate with local and national organizations to promote and protect underserved communities.
Lisa lives in Hiram, Georgia with her husband Robert and two children, Madeline and Charlize.
Dr. Elizabeth Downes is a Professor, clinical track, a Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Educator and Clinical Scholar with more than 30 years of experience working in partnership with ministries of health and academic institutions to strengthen the capacity and competency of nursing workforces around the world. She has advanced nursing education and clinical training in more than a dozen countries, including Ethiopia, Fiji, Liberia, the Bahamas, Mozambique, Sudan and Zimbabwe. She developed an Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) curriculum for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific that resulted in the production of a sustainable nursing workforce to meet the region’s health care needs.
She has served as an international consultant to The Carter Center, an organization founded by President Jimmy Carter to advance peace and health worldwide and has played a key role in the development of faculty continuing education and national curriculums for nursing schools in countries throughout Africa. She co-authored a textbook for educators, Educating Health Professionals in Low-Resource Countries, which has shaped education and clinical training for health care professionals in low-income countries. Domestically, she leads several programs to improve health outcomes and access for vulnerable populations, including refugees and migrant farmer workers.
She is the Betty Tigner Turner Clinical Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University where she serves as the Assistant Dean for Global Health and co-Director of the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the American Academy of Nursing and the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. Her more recent accomplishments include completing the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Global Nurse Leader Institute (GNLI) Scholar program and certifying as an ICN/CGFNS Global Nurse Consultant.
Lisa Tauferner is the virtual assistant for The Lillian Carter Center and works from her home office in Bryan, Texas. She supports the LCC staff with various administrative duties an can be contacted for meeting scheduling requests.
Service Learning
Assistant Clinical Professor
Peace Corps Coverdell Fellow Program Coordinator
Global and Community Engagement Coordinator
Global Research
Assistant Director for Global Health Research for the Lillian Carter Center
Associate Professor
Contact
Emory University
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
The Lillian Carter Center
1520 Clifton Road, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
lcc@emory.edu
Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA
