About Us
 Located in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing is an integral part of the School and reflects its strong commitment to global health improvement. Important structural foundations for this center include the presence of scholars and faculty with expertise in international nursing, including a joint MSN-MPH international nursing degree program. A fundamental part of the LCCIN is the exchange of international students and scholars and the development of global nursing partnerships.
LCCIN Faculty and Staff
Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Professor, Rollins School of Public Health
Founding Director, Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing
Marla E. Salmon is Dean and Professor, and Director of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She formerly served as Director of the Division of Nursing for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as Chair of the Global Advisory Group on Nursing and Midwifery for the World Health Organization.
Throughout her career, Dr. Salmon's research interests have included health policy, administration, and national and international health workforce development, with particular emphasis on the importance of nursing and public health. She has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Meritorious Executive Award and the U.S. Public Health Special Service Award. Dr. Salmon is a member of the Institute of Medicine, member of the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership and is both nationally and internationally recognized for her contributions to health policies influencing health care delivery systems.
Kathryn M. Kite
Senior Associate Director, Programs
Administrative Director, Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing
Kathryn Kite is Senior Associate Director, Programs, and Administrative Director of The Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing (LCCIN) at Emory University. She is responsible for the strategic planning, development, and implementation of programs as well as for providing administrative leadership and direction for LCCIN. Ms. Kite is also responsible for administering the key functions of the Center, including educational programming, hosting major global/international forums and conferences, fostering scholarly exchange, and strategic planning.
From 1983-2001 she served as Conference Director and Publications Manager with the Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS). As Conference Director, she handled all administrative details for more than 50 of SCIS’ televised conferences featuring the former U.S. Secretaries of State, Defense, Health and Human Services, and the former U.S. Ambassadors to the UN. These Peabody Award-winning broadcasts were expanded in 1991 to include conferences with the former U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury and Education and world leaders. Ms. Kite also held the position of Publications Manager for one of SCIS’ major projects, the development of educational packages aimed at supplementing the international studies curricula of colleges, universities and high schools. At SCIS, Ms. Kite administered programs whose participants included heads of state, foreign ministers and ambassadors from almost every country of the developed world and important dignitaries from many countries in the developing world.
Martha Rogers, MD
Clinical Professor
Dr. Martha F. Rogers, a board certified pediatrician, joined the faculty of Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in November 2002 as a Clinical Professor. She is also the director of the Center for Child Well-Being at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development. At Emory’s School of Nursing, Dr. Rogers serves as the Principle Investigator of the Kenya Health Workforce Project. The Project aims to develop an informatics system to provide data for planning, policy development, and evaluation of Kenya’s health workforce. At the Task Force, Dr. Rogers serves as the lead consultant for HIV/AIDS activities. Under her direction, the Task Force has developed a number of training products and policy documents for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s HIV/AIDS national and international programs.
Before coming to Emory, Dr. Rogers spent 20 years at CDC, mostly in work related to the control of HIV/AIDS worldwide. Dr. Rogers is an expert known nationally and internationally in the field of HIV/AIDS in women and children. Her seminal work in the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) led to the routine use of this method for diagnosis of HIV infection in infants. During her tenure at CDC, Dr. Rogers took the lead role in development of CDC's policy documents on HIV in children. She has served on numerous task forces and expert panels, including the Surgeon General's Task Force, the UNAIDS Committee for Pediatric AIDS, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS. Dr. Rogers has published over 75 articles and serves as a peer reviewer and guest editor for several journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, AIDS, Pediatrics, and The Lancet.
Lynn M. Sibley, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Lynn M. Sibley is Clinical Associate Professor and Academic Program Coordinator of International Health for the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Dr. Sibley earned her undergraduate nursing degree at the University of Colorado, an M.S. degree in nursing and midwifery at the University of Utah, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Colorado. Her unique anthropology approach, along with a nursing specialty in maternal and child health, lend value to her health research.
Dr. Sibley’s recent work has focused on innovative approaches to safe childbirth in India and Ethiopia, settings where maternal and newborn mortality rates are high and where home birth is still the norm. She co-authored the American College of Nurse-Midwives’ Home-Based Life Saving Skills which aims to reduce mortality by increasing access to basic life saving measures within home and community and to reduce delays in referral in the event of obstetric complications. Dr. Sibley completed a meta-analysis of traditional birth attendant training spanning 30 years and three world regions. Funding support for this work has come from United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Sibley holds a joint appointment in the Rollins School of Public Health’s Department of International Health and an affiliate appointment in the Department of Anthropology.
Patricia L. Riley, CNM, MPH
Adjunct Faculty, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Technical Advisor, Kenya Nursing Workforce Analysis Project
Patricia Riley’s interest in global health and maternal child health began 30 years ago as Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa. After completing a three-year tour of duty, she went back to school to receive a second undergraduate degree in nursing from Columbia University followed by graduate training in nurse midwifery and public health degree in Maternal and Child Health from The John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Pat began her federal career as a Commissioned Corps Nurse Officer in 1976.
Pat holds an adjunct faculty position with Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and currently serves as CDC’s technical advisor to their Kenya Nursing Workforce Analysis Project. This semester she is mentoring two dual degree nursing students (MSN/MPH) from the School’s Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, who are involved in various activities with CDC’s Safe Water Program, including piloting a national nursing safe water curriculum and evaluating the integration of a “safe water” nursing intervention into one of Kenya’s Ministry of Health clinics.
Karen Kun, MPH, MA
Associate Director, Programs
Administrative Director of the Office of Service Learning
Ms. Kun’s areas of expertise include program development, planning and evaluation. She has collaborated with WHO, PAHO, UNICEF, foreign Ministries of Health, the US Dept. of State, the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, several state Departments of Health, and community-based organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently she served as a consultant to the Family Health Branch of Georgia’s Division of Public Health where she worked to plan, facilitate and evaluate women’s health initiatives.
Ms. Kun has worked under contract at the National Institutes of Health where she collaborated in establishing and enhancing international health-related scientific collaborations. She has also worked with a health policy consulting firm, Health Systems Research, in Washington, DC on projects with federal and state agencies including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and several state Departments of Health. Additionally, Ms. Kun previously served as the executive director of a community-based organization devoted to women and HIV/AIDS.
Ms. Kun has published in journals including the International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, International Family Planning Perspectives and Public Health Reports. She hold s a master’s degree in public health /maternal and child health from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , and a master’s degree in politics from New York University.
Constance Baez
Administrative Assistant, Programs
Constance Baez is an Administrative Assistant for the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing.
Ms. Baez has a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry as well as extensive training in computer software. Before coming to Emory, Constance worked for the corporate and legal sectors as a database manager/designer and legal specialist. For the last several years, Constance has been also collaborating with local and national organizations aimed to promote and protect the human rights of underserved immigrant communities.
International Faculty
Corrine Abraham, RN, MN
Instructor, Department of Adult and Elder Health
International Academic and Cultural Exchange Coordinator
Corrine Abraham earned her BSN from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her MN in 1985 from Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University with a dual focus: Adult Health Clinical and Nursing Education. Corrine practiced clinically for 7 years in a variety of cardiac step-down and coronary care units before joining the faculty of Emory University. She has taught undergraduate clinical nursing at Emory since 1996 with extensive experience teaching in varied clinical settings and a simulation lab. In recent years Corrine has expanded her clinical teaching interests to include involvement with the summer community clinical experience supervising undergraduate students working with the Migrant Farmworker Program in Moultrie, Georgia.
Along with clinical teaching Corrine has been involved in leadership roles in a variety of areas including; coordinating the fundamentals of nursing clinical course; coordinating the role transition clinical course; establishing and serving on the “Problem-based Learning Core Team”; serving as a faculty mentor for the SAGE Mentor Program; serving as the faculty advisor for the Honor Council; and participating on the FULD Fellow selection committee. Other areas of teaching responsibilities include serving as a student mentor/advisor and serving as a PBL faculty tutor.
Corrine is interested in exploring & integrating teaching strategies for developing creative and critical thinking skills of students in the classroom and simulation lab settings. She is interested in developing opportunities for integrating simulation experiences and problem based learning throughout the curriculum as a means of fostering decision-making skills of nursing students.
Corrine’s interest in international nursing has grown since 2005 when she first served as the clinical faculty supervisor for the students participating in the University of Alberta exchange and also attended the alternative spring break in the Bahamas as faculty on the Hubert Fellowship Faith-Based trip. In 2006 Corrine participated in a faculty exchange traveling to Edmonton, Alberta to discuss exchange opportunities with the University of Alberta. Corrine accepted the position as the International Academic & Cultural Exchange Coordinator in 2006.
Judith L. Wold, PhD, RN
Instructor, Migrant Farmworker Program in Moultrie, GA
For the past 14 years Dr. Wold has been the nurse education consultant for the Atlanta-Tbilisi Partnership (now known as Partners for International Development [PfID], a Non-Governmental Organization originally funded by the American International Health Alliance). During the post Soviet era, former satellites of the USSR suffered tremendous economic losses. Health care is naturally affected by these economic hardships. Improving the professional status of nurses from the former soviet countries has been a goal of AIHA and thus its partnerships. Through the partnership with Georgia, the nursing component has met many training and political goals. Nurse exchanges and continuing education in nursing education, leadership and clinical nursing topics have been accomplished. The Georgian Nurses Association was inaugurated under this partnership as well as a parliamentary decree recognizing nursing as a profession in its own right. . The goal of PfID goal is to create sustainability for nurses by establishing a modern university based school of nursing. The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory has been instrumental in helping PfID to achieve its goals.
During the years 2001-to 2003, Dr. Wold was a distinguished scholar in residence in the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing (LCCIN) at Emory University. While in this position Dr. Wold helped to spearhead the first Global Nursing Partnerships Conference. This meeting of National Nursing Association Presidents, Government Chief Nursing Officers, and Governmental Human Resources Officers from over 60 countries held at the Carter Presidential Center in October of 2001 to discuss international workforce issues was the first ever meeting of this type. Additionally, she volunteered during the second and third Global Partnerships conferences. Also, during her scholar in residence stay, Dr. Wold led undergraduate and graduate students and faculty on two MEDICC trips to Cuba to study the health care delivery system in that country.
Dr. Wold directs the Farm Worker Family Health Program (FWFHP) each summer for the LCCIN. A unique multidisciplinary service learning opportunity for graduate and undergraduate student nurses, the FWFHP delivers much needed health care to migrant farm workers in Southern Georgia each year. She serves on the APHA International Human Rights Committee and is an Academic Fellow of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing.
LCCIN Student Workers
Karen Thomisee
Senior, BSN/MSN Segue Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program
Karen Thomisee is a student in the BSN/MSN (Pediatric Nurse Practitioner) segue program. An LCCIN intern since Jan. 2006, Karen serves as a team member for the Global Government Health Partners Forum, co-chairs the Education committee for Emory International Student Nurses Association and assists with the Family Farm Worker Health Program.
Karen has an Associate’s degree in photography and a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts from Goddard College. She has made numerous visits to Haiti, where she has served with a medical team, taught photography to children and conducted research with mothers and traditional birth attendants about malnutrition. She also worked as volunteer coordinator for the Frontier Nursing Service, a rural health care service and midwifery program in Eastern Kentucky. Karen is currently conducting research about soil ingestion by women in Haiti, including the perceptions of the practice by traditional birth attendants.
Anjalie Graham
Anjalie graduated from Carroll College in Montana with a degree in Peace and Justice Studies, which combined Theology and Political Science along with a few other subjects. She spent time in Mexico volunteering and living at a shelter for women and children. She also lived in Tanzania volunteering at an orphans' center and a dispensary. As a student in the Segue Program, Anjalie hopes to earn her master's and work abroad.
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