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Nurse educators and inter-professional colleagues play an instrumental role in achieving health equity and social justice for people across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities and religion. The National League for Nursing and Walden University College of Nursing's new Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change is uniquely designed to develop these individuals to become leaders of social change who can address the impact of structural racism, socioeconomic status, environment, education, adequate housing, and food insecurity on health and wellbeing.

Nurse educators and inter-professional colleagues are instrumental in achieving health equity. The National League for Nursing and Walden University College of Nursing’s Institute for Social Determinants of Health and Social Change is uniquely designed to develop leaders who can address the impact of SDOH by cultivating the leadership competencies to integrate social change into their curricula and programs and engaging in research and other scholarly activities to fill in the gaps in SDOH education, assessment, and evaluation.

Creating leaders to serve as catalysts to transform social determinants of health and social change.

Co-creating leaders to serve as catalysts to transform social determinants of health and social change.

Committed to supporting leadership development for nurse educators and inter-professional colleagues by

Cultivating appropriate leadership competencies to integrate social change into their programs

Integrating social determinants of health and social change into curricula

Engaging in research and other scholarly activities related to social determinants of health and social change with a view toward broad dissemination

Developing leaders and catalysts of social change