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In this episode, we get to hear from Teddie Potter, Deva-Marie Beck, and Barbara Dossey as they discuss envisioning planetary health with global initiatives, such as the Nightingale Initiative; co-hosted by Heidi Honegger Rogers
Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Dr. Potter is deeply committed to planetary health education and movement building. She was the inaugural director of the Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice at the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. She is a Fellow in the Institute on the Environment at the University, a board member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, a member of the American Academy of Nursing Environment and Public Health Expert Panel, and she is a member of the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA). She serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the US Health Sector, and the Climate Crossroads committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Her most recent work is partnering with the International Council of Nurses to promote Nursing for Planetary Health.
Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, DTM, HSGAHN
Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, DTM, HSGAHN, is a Canadian American nurse, educator, global citizen and award-winning Florence Nightingale scholar who has worked — for three decades — on citizen advocacy for achieving global health. She has recently been recognized as an Honorary Scholar (HSGAHN) of the Global Academy of Holistic Nursing for her leadership to promote and sustain global health care transformation and advocacy to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Dr. Beck has served, since 2006, as International Co-Director of an INGO called Nightingale Initiative for Global Health — nicknamed ‘NIGH’—achieving NIGH’s ‘Special Consultative Status.’ granted by the United Nations Economic & Social Council (UN ECOSOC) in 2018 and establishing 17 language versions of NIGH’s founding credo—the ‘Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World’ . In this role, she has traveled to 25 countries and led NIGH’s work on United Nations briefings, group discussions, workshops, website updates, webinars, feature articles, photojournalism, videos, and keynotes.
Across 2023 through 2025, she has chaired NIGH’s virtual ‘Nurses’ Voices & Student Nurses’ Voices Speaker Series’—15 Webinars broadcasted from all six World Health Organization Regions and Co-Hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR) and UNITAR’s CIFAL Centre at York University in Toronto. Dr. Beck has authored and co-authored articles for numerous peer-reviewed journals—including for the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in 2019 and ICN’s International Nursing Review in 2024—as well as many textbook chapters, including for ‘A New Era for Global Health: Nursing and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ (Springer, 2018). She has recently achieved the highest-level education Award from Toastmasters International—as a Distinguished Toast Master ‘DTM.’ She now aims to use this ‘credential’ to develop innovative ways to encourage and engage nurses and concerned citizens to share their voices and tell their keenly relevant stories in the global public arena.
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HSGAHN
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HSGAHN, is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing and nurse coaching movements. She is a Florence Nightingale scholar, nurse theorist, and national and international speaker and teacher on Florence Nightingale’s legacy and the role of integrative nurse coaching in the emerging integrative health care paradigm. She is the International Co-Director and Board Member, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), in Washington, DC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Geneva, Switzerland and in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital region. She is the Co-Founder, International Nurse Coach Association (INCA) and the Integrative Nurse Coach Academy (INCA), Miami, Florida. Barbara is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is certified in Holistic Nursing (AHN-BC) and is an Honorary Scholar Global Academy of Holistic Nursing (HSGAHN). She is an 11-time recipient of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award and has received many other awards.
She has authored, co-authored, edited 31 books. She contributed to Dossey and Keegan’s Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice (8th ed., 2022 and 9th ed., 2026; co-author and editor on 1st to 7th editions). Her most recent publications include The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching: The Provider’s Guide for Coaching Scope and Competencies (2nd ed., 2021); Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing (2015); and Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer (2010, Commemorative Edition). See: www.dosseydossey.com, www.iNurseCoach.com, www.NIGHvision.net
Guest Host:
Heidi Honegger Rogers
Heidi Honegger Rogers is a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. She is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing and is affiliated faculty with the UNM Sustainability Studies Program. She works with the UNM center for Health Equity, Planetary Health and Preparedness and is on the leadership team for UNM’s Accelerating Resilience in Drylands institute. She was the Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center 2018-2024. Her advocacy and scholarship centers in climate change and health, equity and justice, nature connection, wellbeing, planetary health and interprofessional education. She leads the Planetary Health Task Force for the American Holistic Nurses Association, and she works with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and the Planetary Health Alliance. She is a facilitator with the Work That Reconnects and a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is dedicated to bringing a Planetary Health Lens into our work as nurses and health professionals.
Resources:
Nightengale Initiative for Global Health https://www.nighvision.net
About the Nurses for Healthy Environments Podcast
2025 marks the 8th season of the Nurses for Healthy Environments Podcast. Since 2017, Beth and other hosts have interviewed dozens nurses across the globe, all of whom are working at the intersection of health and environment. The goals of the podcast are to highlight and share the amazing and leading work nurses around the world are doing to help protect our natural world in order to support health and healing, and to spread the word about the fabulous work of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. We’re glad you found us!
Again and again, nurses are spearheading social change, climate action, environmental justice, and improving health for vulnerable populations, while using their valuable clinical skills, teaching, and caring. Nurses’ work can seem overlooked or taken for granted, and we are here to tell their important stories. We hope you enjoy meeting the nurses in the Nurses for Healthy Environments podcast!
Beth Schenk, Nurses for Healthy Environments Podcast Host
Elizabeth Schenk, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a leader of environmental stewardship in healthcare, where she has been working to reduce
pollution from healthcare for 3 decades. Schenk is a former board member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and serves on the boards of Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate and Climate Smart Missoula.
