Staff

The ICHRN Secretariat is housed at the International Council of Nurses headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Director
Mireille Kingma, RN, BS, MA, PhD

Mireille Kingma is a staff Consultant for Nursing and Health Policy with the International Council of Nurses (ICN), a federation of 131 national nurses' associations. She was awarded a Bachelor in nursing and has a Masters in human resources development. Her doctoral thesis focused on Economic Policy: Incentive or disincentive for community nurses? and was granted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Over the past 20 years at ICN, she has been responsible for international consultations and training programmes in more than 60 countries. Her current job portfolios include the socio-economic welfare of nurses, work life quality, human resources development, occupational health and safety, care of the older person, refugees, and international trade in health services. Kingma's recent book, Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy, was published by Cornell University Press.


Centre Adviser
James Buchan, MA (Hons) PhD DPM

James Buchan is currently professor at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Scotland and Visiting Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He has 20 years experience of practice, policy research and consultancy on Human Resource strategy and planning in health care human resources, specialising in the nursing workforce. He has worked in Africa, Asia, West Indies, North, Central and South America, Australasia and most countries of the European Union. His previous employment includes work as a Senior Human Resources Manager in the NHS Executive in Scotland, and as Policy Advisor at the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom.


Centre Manager
Bridget Weller, BA (Hons), EMPA

Bridget Weller brings to the Centre extensive experience in public sector health and community services policy, funding and workforce development. She has more than 15 years' experience in a range of public sector policy and management positions dealing with workforce development and strategy, acute health services, rural and regional health services delivery, demand management and health services funding. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Monash University, Melbourne, an Executive Master of Public Administration (Australia and New Zealand School of Government, University of Melbourne), as well as formal qualifications and experience in professional writing and editing. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, she is now based in Edinburgh, and recently authored Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals (available on this site), a joint initiative of the International Council of Nurses, International Hospital Federation, International Pharmaceutical Federation, World Confederation for Physical Therapy, World Dental Federation and World Medical Association developed with the Support of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.