​Afaf Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN, the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, has been named to the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health for a four year term.

 
The Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health helps guide the director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, which ensures that women’s health and sex differences research is part of the NIH scientific framework and that women and minorities are included in clinical research.

Dean Meleis also directs Penn Nursing’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. She is the Global Ambassador for the Girl Child Initiative of the International Council of Nurses, and is president and Council General Emerita of the International Council on Women’s Health Issues.