Each year roughly 850 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar awards for advanced research and university lecturing in the United States. Individual awards are available to scholars from over 100 countries.

U.S. Higher Education institutions are instrumental to the success of the Fulbright mission. They are key allies in advancing the goal of sharing knowledge across communities, promoting mutual understanding across nations and improving lives around the world.

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Deborah Gray

Job title

Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Director Graduate Nursing Programs

dcgray@odu.edu

Academic year

July 2018 - June 2019

Discipline

Nursing

Project

Expanding Global Nursing Education, Collaboration, and Access to Care

Institution

Old Dominion University

Countries

Botswana

Deborah's Fulbright project was with the University of Botswana in the Advanced Practice Nursing programs and the World Health Organization’s Sub-Saharan Africa Center for Nursing and Midwifery developing telehealth capacity and web-based distance learning that increased educational outreach, healthcare access, and healthcare capacity in Botswana and throughout Africa. As a pre-COVID project it also later allowed the continued education of nursing and other essential health care professionals across the continent, as well as sustained access to care during COVID. On a Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Travel Grant, she also worked with nursing groups, educational leaders, and health ministries in Ghana, Eswatini, Tanzania, Rwanda, & Nigeria towards similar outcomes. She’s expanded this work since her return collaborating through her home institution and other national and international organizations.

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