Aisha Holloway

Professor Aisha Holloway FNMRCSI Ad Eundem
Chair of Nursing Studies| Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Co-Director Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative (EGNI)
Rm 2m6, Nursing Studies | School of Health in Social Science
The University of Edinburgh - https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/aisha-holloway

Aisha joined the Law Society of Scotland as a lay member in May 2022.

Aisha is Chair in Nursing Studies, Head of Nursing Studies and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative (EGNI) at The University of Edinburgh and is an alumna of Harvard Business School. With a personal research programme spanning over 30 years, Aisha’s work has a particular focus on alcohol related harm, global public health, workforce and health policy. She also has a strong professional interest in health policy and nurse political leadership. Aisha has been invited to submit written and oral evidence to Scottish Parliament and provided evidence used in the Triple Impact Report.

Aisha is Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Trustee to the Board of the Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF), Advisory Board member of the Nursing Now Challenge and Advisory Board member for the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program. She is also the founder & elected Co-Chair of the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) and sits on the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Health Improvement Protection and Services Research Committee at Scottish Government, the first nurse to do so. Aisha is a FNF Leadership Scholar and has held a range of senior appointments, positions and Government advisory roles during her career, including, Chief Nursing Officer Scotland (CNO) Research Fellowship; Non-Executive Director to the Board of the Royal College of Nursing Publishing (RCNi); Advisor to Public Health England Deputy Chief Nurse on Alcohol related harm; Invited member of Public Health England Alcohol Leadership Board; Invited member of Expert Group on Alcohol Treatment at Public Health England; and was Hon Nurse Consultant for Alcohol Policy & Research to the Alcohol Policy Team at Scottish Government. Most recently she was Programme Director for Research & Evidence for the Nursing Now Global campaign.

Latest paper published March 2022 Involvement of alcohol in injury cases in rural Sri Lanka: prevalence and associated factors among in-patients in three primary care hospitals https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-12958-8

No. 1 for Nursing in the UK in 2019, 2020 and now 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2020/sep/05/best-uk-universities-for-nursing-midwifery-league-table