Additional Advocacy Activities
Hemodialysis Laughter Therapy in Australia
To honor 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, the ISN continues to present accounts from nurses around the world: Laughing as a group while on dialysis sounds a little strange. How can you pretend to laugh? How can you laugh when you’re in pain, feel tired, and are stuck to a...
ISN President Encourages Patient-Centric NCD Policies
ISN President, Vivekanand Jha, spoke at the online event “Leaving No-one Behind: The Need for a Person-Centred, Inclusive NCD Agenda Confirmation” organized by the NCD Alliance on November 5, 2020. This roundtable event focused on the challenges of the current NCD response and key opportunities and solutions to go beyond a siloed NCD agenda, notably...
The ISN Presents Evidence to the UK Committee on the Science of COVID-19
Professor Donal O’Donoghue, Chair of the ISN’s Advocacy Working Group, was among a distinguished panel of experts who gave evidence at the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee hearing on the Science of COVID-19 in the UK. Presenting at the beginning of the virtual session on Tuesday, September 15, Professor O’Donoghue outlined the...
ASN/ERA-EDTA/ISN Joint Working Group’s Call to Action with Paper on Ethical Issues in Nephrology
Ethical challenges in nephrology: a call for action by the ASN/ERA-EDTA/ISN Joint Working Group on Ethical Issues in Nephrology, has been published in Nature Reviews Nephrology. The paper identifies ten broad areas of ethical concern as priority challenges that require collaborative action to highlight the need for ethical analysis of issues within kidney care and to...