ABSTRACT
Objectives
Discuss possibilities of nursing contribution for global health approaching knowledge bases and the potential for global health, reflecting upon nursing education and their skills and abilities to perform into global health.
Results
Nurses contribute to global health in areas related to the health system policies, social determinants of health/disease, global issues related to culture, epidemics, communicable and non-communicable diseases, epidemiology, humanitarian actions and emergencies. Universities play an important role for this contribution.
Conclusions
Nurses are professionals who actively contribute to global health, whether in political, social, economic or cultural situations, and universities play an important role for the training of these professionals.
Nursing education; Global health; Millennium Development Goals