Sarah Sullivan, MSN, MPH

She/Her/Hers

Biography

Sarah Sullivan is a Global Health professional, Academic and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP). Ms. Sullivan is currently working as an Associate Professor at Touro University California, College of Health Science and Education, Public Health program. Professor Sullivan’s research focuses on research ethics, migrant health, human resources for health, and cervical cancer. Sarah Sullivan is a Fulbright Scholar and supports research ethics programs/institutional review boards (IRBs) in public and private universities across the Americas. Ms. Sullivan has over 25 years of global health experience working in many countries for organizations such as CARE International, USAID, and WHO and providing education and research support to universities. She also has considerable experience working in health clinics as a PNP in the San Francisco, California area serving low-income populations.

Education

• Master of Public Health (MPH, 2002) with a specialty in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley
• Master of Science in International Cross-Cultural Nursing (MSN, 1993) from the University of California, San Francisco

Honors and Awards

• Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia 2017-2019

Recent Publications

Armando Basagoitia, Sahai Burrowes, Maria Teresa Solis-Soto, Genevieve MacMillan and Sarah Sullivan. Community and provider perceptions and experiences of cervical cancer screening
in Rural Bolivia: a qualitative study. BMC Women's Health (2023) 23:359
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02500

Sarah Sullivan, Maria Teresa Solis, Sahai Burrowes, Armando Basagoitia. Can Mystery Patients inform us on the Quality of Cervical Cancer Screenings? A Pilot Study in Rural Bolivia. Revista de Salud de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.(2021) https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v23n4.92654

Sarah Sullivan, Ana Posada, Mathew Hawkins, Giomar Higueras. Where are the Female Experts? Perceptions about the Absence of Female Presenters at a Digital Health Conference in Bolivia. Mhealth. 2020; 6: 37. Published online 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.21037/mhealth-2019-di-12

Aalborg, A., Sullivan, S., Cortes, J., Basagoitia, A., Illanes, D., & Green, M. (2016). Research ethics training of trainers: Developing capacity of Bolivian health science and civil society leaders. Acta Bioethica, 22(2), 281-291. doi:10.4067/S1726-569X2016000200015

Redmond, P., Shane, P., West, C., Landel, G., & Sullivan, S. (2015). Interprofessional education: It's contagious. In H. Klein (Ed.), Proceedings: Seventeenth Academy for Creative Teaching International Conference (ACT 17) (pp. 34-47). Needham, MA: WACRA.

Sullivan, S., Aalborg, A., Basagoitia, A., Cortes, J., Lanza, O., & Schwind, J. S. (2015). Exploring perceptions and experiences of Bolivian health researchers with research ethics. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 10(2), 185-195.

Lanza, O., Cortez, J., Sullivan, S., Aalborg, A., & Valencia, A. (2014). Contribución al derecho a la salud: Proyecto inter-institucional de ética de la investigación y educación en salud [A contribution to the right to health: Inter-institutional project on research ethics and health education]. Cuadernos del Hospital de Clinicas [Notebooks of Clinic Hospital], 55(1), 76-79.