The University of Iowa College of Nursing is involved in a number of global health initiatives.

Hawkeyes in Haiti, for example, is a joint project between the Henry B. Tippie College of Business and the College of Nursing that helps communities create self-sustaining health care clinics that delivers high quality patient-centered primary care, health promotion, training and education.

In April 2018, the College of Nursing, for the first time, integrated global health practice experience into the curriculum. This new arrangement provides an opportunity for undergraduate nursing students to complete their community and population health rotation in eSwatini, Africa. This initiative greatly enriches students’ education by gaining perspective of the health and human similarities, and differences, in a country with the highest HIV infection rate and where two-thirds of the population lives in extreme poverty.