This presentation will demonstrate the spread and seriousness of the current global diabetes pandemic. By examining the concepts of social determinants of health and how such determinants relate to the global pandemic, this presentation will offer interventions based on a population health framework to decrease the number of cases of diabetes being diagnosed nearly daily worldwide.
Adele began her nursing career in NICU, then transitioned to the ED. In 1990, Adele began focusing on HIV. Over the last 34 years, her focus has been nurse capacity building for communicable/non-communicable diseases. She has contributed to WHO guidelines and testified to the Institute of Medicine and the White House. Adele has received the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nicholas Andrew Cummings award for Excellence in Interprofessional Practice. Adele is an ICN Global Health Fellow, a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
