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Afaf Ibrahim Meleis
Dr. Meleis is Dean Emerita and Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Over the course of more than five decades, Dr. Meleis has demonstrated a profound passion for pushing the boundaries of nursing science, cultivating the next generation of health care leaders, and improving women’s health. As the vibrant and forward-thinking Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing (2002–2014), she was known as the “Energizer Dean,” a nickname coined in her 2009 Pennsylvania Gazette profile, which conveyed her can-do attitude and approach to her life’s work.
A leading expert in global health and immigrant and women’s health, Dr. Meleis has dedicated her career to ensuring vulnerable populations are given a voice, particularly women who are burdened by societal inequities, multiplicity of roles, differential compensation and rewards, and the gender divide. She used this knowledge to redefine women’s work and to develop Transitions Theory, which is
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This manifesto was initiated as a combined effort of Richard Cowling, Sue Hagedorn,Peggy Chinn. We all come from white, middle-class backgrounds. We grew up in diverse areas of the United States (New York, Hawaii, Virginia). We all have relatively privileged backgrounds that included opportunities for education, travel, and cultural experiences (camps, concerts, etc.). However, early in our lives, we all followed personal and political paths that challenged the status quo (much to the chagrin of our families and friends). While some of our personal paths have not seemed particularly "political" on the surface, they all reflect a deep and abiding yearning for peace and justice in the world, and for the values of caring and nurturing that we perceive to be at the heart of nursing. We came together in preparing the text for this manifesto informed by our individual awarenesses of the deeply political nature of our personal choices.
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Afaf Meleis
Egyptian-American nurse-scientist, researcher and medical sociologist
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis (born 1942) is an Egyptian-American nurse-scientist, researcher, and medical sociologist.[1] She is a Professor of Nursing and Sociology and Dean Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served from 2002 through 2014.[1] This followed her 34-year tenure as a nursing faculty professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Early life and education
Meleis was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt.[2] Her mother was a prominent nurse in Egypt, having been the first nurse to earn MPH and PhD degrees at an Egyptian university.[2] Her mother went on to establish undergraduate and graduate nursing programs at several Egyptian universities (including Alexandria University), numerous post-high school nursing educational programs around the Persian Gulf, and her own clinic as a nurse-midwife.[3][4] Meleis has recounted that her mother’s
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