Patricia A. Daoust, RN, MSN, FAAN

Patricia Daoust MSN, RN, is the Director of Nursing at the Center for Global Health/ Mass General Hospital in Boston, Mass. She is also the Chief Nursing Officer for the Global Health Service Corps; the private entity of a partnership with the Peace Corps which places nurse and physician volunteer educators at nursing and medical schools in sub-Sahara, Africa. Pat also lectures on Global Health at the University of Mass-Boston School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Pat was previously the Director of the Global AIDS Initiative for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).

Prior to joining PHR, she worked on issues related to the domestic HIV epidemic and served as the Director of Client Services for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. She subsequently worked with the Harvard AIDS Institute and served on the nursing faculty of the KITSO program, an HIV education partnership between the Harvard School of Public Health and the government of Botswana. She led a large and innovative Center for Disease Control-funded Nursing Leadership and Capacity Building Project in Ethiopia for I-TECH, which is presently being replicated in other African countries.