The World Fellows program solidified my research interests around global health workforce capacity building and has offered a wonderful network of friends and colleagues around the world. Knowing I can reach out to a Fellow for the “pulse” of an issue or an international perspective has been invaluable.
2003
Allison Squires
Associate Professor of Nursing
New York University
Allison Squires is an associate professor of nursing and medicine at New York University and the Director of the Florence S. Downs PhD Program in Nursing Research & Theory Development. Her research focuses on health workforce capacity building around the world, with a track record of work in 35 countries to date. She is the 2019-2020 Distinguished Nurse Scholar for the United States’ National Academy of Medicine where she is contributing to the Future of Nursing Consensus Study.
Nurses are the primary focus of her global health workforce capacity building research. In the United States, the patient focus of her work centers on immigrant health and studying the intersections of how language preference influences patient outcomes, health services delivery, and patient-provider relationships. Her research methods expertise is in cross-language research.
Allison has consulted with the Migration Policy Institute and the World Bank on nursing and health workforce issues and produced several major policy analyses with their teams.
A prolific writer, Allison has authored over 150 publications including 100 in peer-reviewed journals. Prior to entering academia full time, Allison worked as a staff nurse in solid organ transplant and as a staff educator for 11 years in the US healthcare system. She has collaborated with several Yale World Fellows on health related research projects over the years.
Allison earned a BSN in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, a MSN in nursing from Duquesne University, and a PhD from Yale University