Jennifer Dohrn, CNM, DNP, FAAN is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the Office of Global Initiatives and its PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. As Director of Midwifery Services, Professor Dohrn 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, and initiating methods of simulation learning into nursing curriculum. Professor Dohrn was the founding Project Director for the United States/PEPFAR-funded ICAP Global Nursing Capacity Building to address the HIV pandemic in ten Sub-Saharan countries. Professor Dohrn is currently leading an initiative to study the role of nursing responses on the frontline of the Ebola outbreak in western African countries. She has integrated her wide global experiences in crisis response situations into two decades of teaching in midwifery and global health equity, including her engagement with Columbia Global Centers in Mumbai, Amman, Nairobi, and Beijing.