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Professor Aisha Holloway is Chair of Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative. She holds adjunct roles at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and chairs the Scottish Alcohol Research Network. Her leadership spans global health policy, early career nurse development, and WHO advisory roles. She focuses on alcohol-related harm reduction, nursing workforce policy, and global health equity in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), particularly Africa.
Education: BSc (Hons) Nursing, PhD, PGCHE, and multiple fellowships (FRCN, FHEA, FNMRCSI). She pioneered the Nursing Now Challenge, a global initiative supporting 6 WHO regions' nurses/midwives. Her research integrates nurse-led interventions with policy advocacy, emphasizing alcohol brief interventions (ABIs), prison health, and maternal/child health in Africa.
Research interests include global political nurse leadership, workforce migration, and SDG-aligned healthcare. She leads major grants like the NIHR-PH APPRAISE study and DIPLOMATIC maternal health study in Africa. Awards include a Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship and Harvard leadership training.
Key affiliations: WHO State of the World’s Nursing Steering Committee, Scottish Government Taskforce, and advisory roles for Harvard’s Global Nursing Leadership and Nursing Now Challenge. She mentors early career nurses and teaches a global health policy master’s course.
- Grants: NIHR-PH, NIHR-GCRF, CSO, ESRC
- Labs/Teams: Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative, Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN)
- Future Work: Scaling ABI programs, advancing nurse-led policy frameworks, expanding global health leadership training
