WHO WE ARE
Patricia Moccia, PhD, RN
Senior Vice-President
(Lead – Advocacy and Communications)
For over a decade, Patricia Moccia served as a senior member of UNICEF’s Division of Communication, developing global communication strategies, messaging and advocacy campaigns on a range of issues including the MDGs, child survival, education and gender equality, HIV and AIDS, child protection and children affected by armed conflict. During her tenure as chief of UNICEF’s editorial section, she wrote, edited or served as the executive editor on the organization’s flagship publications and more than 100 advocacy publications and technical reports. She also led the communications outreach to the development professional audiences with a coordinated multi-media approach that included websites, podcasts such as the “beyond schoolbooks” series, the use of infographics and local and regional advocacy campaigns.
In a unique role as UNICEF’s global lead of communications for education, Dr. Moccia convened a team that used the power of communication to advance the work of the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), the “Go Girls!” campaign, Child-friendly Schools, and education in emergencies and transition countries.
Her holistic world view and expert facility with a multi-discipline approach are grounded in her first career as a professional nurse, where her scholarship focused on the philosophy of science and the relationship between theory and practice. Her clinical experience included community health, family and adolescent health, and paediatrics. She has taught undergraduate nursing students and graduate and doctoral students in health care policy, research methods, curriculum development and pedagogy. As head of the nursing department at Teachers College Columbia University, Dr. Moccia oversaw research and doctoral dissertations in administration and management of health care services and, university teaching and administration; and as CEO of the National League for Nursing and Health Care she led a national organization that accredited schools of nursing and community health care agencies.
Throughout her career, Dr. Moccia has mentored scores of young professionals and served as executive coach to many mid-career professionals. A prolific author and frequent speaker, she has earned a MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (US); a PhD – Nursing Science – A Study of the Theory-Practice Dialectic: Toward a Critique of the Science of Man ); MA in Community health and teaching of nursing and a BS in nursing science, all from New York University, US.
Photo credit: R. Heller.
WHO WE ARE
Cream Wright, PHD
Patricia Moccia, PhD
Ko-Chih Tung, PhD
Dr. David S. Bassiouni
Andy Powell
