Jennifer Dohrn, CNM, DNP, FAAN is a Professor and Assistant Dean of the Office of Global Initiatives and director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She has served communities locally and globally. As Director of Midwifery Services, she initiated the first freestanding maternity center in an inner city in the United States in the Bronx, New York. She has worked in Sub-Saharan African countries since 2003, helping to expand the role of nurses and midwives in primary and HIV care.