Annette Mwansa Nkowane
Former Technical Officer of Nursing and Midwifery, World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
Annette Mwansa Nkowane is a nurse and a midwife from Zambia. During the Ebola outbreak, Mwansa served as the Technical Officer of Nursing and Midwifery in the World Health Organization's Health Workforce Department in Geneva. Previously, she worked with other WHO departments including Mental Health and Substance Use and Gender and Women's Health. Mwansa trained as a community health nurse before completing a masters in human resource development. Prior to her position at the WHO, Mwansa worked with International Federation of the Red Cross in the Health Department. As part of Columbia University's On the Frontlines project, Mwansa conducted interviews with Ebola nurses in Sierra Leone and Liberia in August 2019.
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