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D-Index
54
Citations
19706
World Ranking
2094
National Ranking
1009

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Afaf Ibrahim Meleis is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields within health sciences, including Medicine, Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Global Health and Surgery
  • Health and Conflict Studies

Afaf Ibrahim Meleis has authored several recent papers, reflecting engagement with contemporary issues in health professions education and nursing theory. Selected publications include:

  • Challenges and opportunities for educating health professionals after the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, The Lancet
  • Nursing Theory in the Quest for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, Nursing Science Quarterly

Frequent co-authors in Meleis's research include Julio Frenk, Liang-Chia Chen, Latha Chandran, Elizabeth O H Groff, and Roderick King. These collaborations suggest a network of interdisciplinary partnerships within the health sciences field.

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears predominantly include The Lancet and Nursing Science Quarterly, indicating a focus on both broad medical issues and specialized nursing topics.

In recognition of professional contributions, Meleis was appointed as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Jordan Cohen

  • Experiencing Transitions: An Emerging Middle-Range Theory

    Afaf Ibrahim Meleis;Linda M. Sawyer;Eun Ok Im;De Anne K.Hilfinger Messias

  • Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress

    Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Jordan Cohen;Nigel Crisp

  • Women and Health: the key for sustainable development

    Ana Langer;Afaf Meleis;Felicia M Knaul;Rifat Atun

  • Marginalization: A guiding concept for valuing diversity in nursing knowledge development

    Joanne M. Hall;Patricia E. Stevens;Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Transitions: A Nursing Concern

    Norma Chick;Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Facilitating transitions: Redefinition of the nursing mission

    Afaf Ibrahim Meleis;Patricia A. Trangenstein

  • Culturally Competent Scholarship: Substance and Rigor

    Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Health is empowerment.

    Patricia S. Jones;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Role insufficiency and role supplementation: a conceptual framework.

    Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Education of health professionals for the 21st century: a global independent Commission

    Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Lincoln Chen;Jordan Cohen;Nigel Crisp

  • Situation-Specific Theories: Philosophical Roots, Properties, and Approach

    Eun-ok Im;Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

  • Nursing epistemology: traditions, insights, questions.

    Phyllis R. Schultz;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Coping With Grief After Involuntary Pregnancy Loss: Perspectives of African American Women

    Paulina Van;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Issues in health care of Middle Eastern patients.

    Juliene G. Lipson;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Between two cultures: identity, roles, and health.

    Afaf I. Meleis

  • The Stress of Immigration and the Daily Lived Experiences of Jordanian Immigrant Women in the United States

    Marianne Hattar-Pollara;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Caregiving between two cultures: an integrative experience.

    Patricia S. Jones;Xinwei Esther Zhang;Karen Jaceldo-Siegl;Afaf I. Meleis

  • Methodological issues in research with immigrants.

    Juliene G. Lipson;Afaf I. Meleis

  • The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A national workforce perspective

    Linda R Cronenwett;Kathleen Dracup;Margaret Grey;Linda McCauley

Frequent Co-Authors

Eun-Ok Im
Eun-Ok Im The University of Texas at Austin
Patricia E. Stevens
Patricia E. Stevens University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Julio Frenk
Julio Frenk University of California, Los Angeles
Timothy G. Evans
Timothy G. Evans McGill University
Lincoln C. Chen
Lincoln C. Chen China Medical Board
Felicia Marie Knaul
Felicia Marie Knaul University of Miami
Agnes Binagwaho
Agnes Binagwaho Harvard University
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Jacquelyn C. Campbell Johns Hopkins University
Patricia Benner
Patricia Benner University of California, San Francisco
Barbara Riegel
Barbara Riegel University of Pennsylvania

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