Belmont’s Global Health Initiative, led by Dr. Shelby Garner, supports Belmont’s goal of radically championing life abundant for all people by establishing partnerships internationally that support human flourishing in communities around the world. Currently, Dr. Garner and her team are working on healthcare projects in a variety of countries including India and Indonesia, among others.
Projects
Their most recent project joins with Bangalore Baptist Hospital to save lives at birth in India, the country identified by the World Health Organization as having the poorest inequity score for newborn health interventions among all countries in Southeast Asia. While infant mortality has improved in India over the last two decades, it still leads the world in the number of newborn deaths each other. Thanks to a grant from the Laerdal Foundation, Garner and her team are working to provide novel cultural response curricula incorporating best practices in labor and delivery, newborn assessment, essential newborn care and life-saving measures. Project investigators from Belmont and Bangalore Baptist Hospitals’ institute of Nursing will design, implement and research innovative teaching and learning strategies in simulation, mobile health, virtual reality simulation and e-learning to combat this health disparity.
Belmont and Bangalore Baptist Hospital will also partner with INACSL’s first Regional Interest Group in India to analyze outcomes from the project.
About the Director
- Shelby L. Garner, PhD, RN, CNE, FAANDirector, Global Health Innovation & Professor of NursingPhD, Texas Woman's University; MSN, University of Phoenix; BSN, Texas Christian UniversityView Bio
Research
Dr. Garner’s primary research interest involves building nurse and health system capacity globally through the adaptation, design and testing of innovative technologies such as simulation and mobile health applications to transform health education and improve patient care.
External Funding
- $40,000. Laerdal Foundation. Effectiveness of a Culturally Responsive Nursing Program to Save Lives at Birth in India
- $525,693. US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to build a Living and Learning Centre with Smart Classrooms. 2018-2023.
- $900,000: US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to build a Women’s and Children’s Healthcare and Research Centre in Bengaluru, India.
- $99,677: US India Education Foundation (USIEF) 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Grant to develop a mobile health application on diabetes for use in rural villages and urban slums in India. 2018-2020.
- $652,800: US Agency for International Development (USAID) American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA). Funding to construct the Simulation Education and Research Center for Nursing Excellence in Bengaluru, India. 2015-2019.
- USIEF Fulbright-Nehru Research Academic and Professional Research FlexGrant: Evaluating the Impact of Simulation use in Nursing Curricula in Bengaluru, India. 2016-2018.
- $2000: Texas Organization for Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Education (TOBGNE). Excellence in Research Grant. Perceived Strategies to Increase Retention Rates among Nurses in India. 2014.
Journal Publications
Books
- Koch, H., Green, G., Mahid, Z., Garner, S. L., Hitchcock, J., George, C., and Young, P. (2019, in press). “mHealth collaboration for social good: Lessons on adaptability, "in Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and Empowerment, Roger W. McHaney, Iris Reychav, Joseph Azuri, Mark E. McHaney, Rami Moshonov, (eds.). Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019.
- HESI comprehensive review for the NCLEX RN examination (2013, 2016). (4th & 5th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Publishing.
- One of four authors for this textbook that aims to prepare students for the NCLEX-RN exam. Major contributions to this text included authorship of over 100 NCLEX style test questions.
Awards
- 2022 Inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
- 2022 Hayden Vanguard Lectureship awarded by INACSL (International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning) and CAE Healthcare as Keynote Speaker: An Innovative International Collaboration to Build a Program of Nursing Simulation Education and Research in India.
- 2022 Elizabeth Vardaman Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research. Baylor University.
- 2018 Excellence in Educational Research Award, awarded by the Sigma Theta Tau International/Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for Excellence in Nursing Education. Award winner announced July 19th, 2018 at the 29th International Research Congress Sigma Theta Tau International, Melbourne, Australia.
- Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses 2017 Award.