MSN, RN · PhD Candidate · UMass Amherst

Welcome — I am

Aslam
Parvage

A nurse scholar, advocate, and founder of the Reimagine Nursing & Midwifery Initiative — pushing for a world where nurses lead the systems they serve.

Reimagine Nursing & Midwifery Health Policy Global South 4IR in Nursing First-Gen Scholar
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Bangladesh → USA
Current Position
PhD Candidate
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1st
In his family to graduate college — from a rural village in Bangladesh
5+
Pillars of the Reimagine Nursing & Midwifery Initiative — and growing
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Commitment to nurses everywhere who were never allowed to become what they could be
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Community Midwifery Outreach
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Faculty Development Training

"Nursing is not a task to shout for respect. It is a task to touch hearts."

— A turning point
About Me

A Nurse Who Refused
to Stay Still

I am Aslam Parvage — a nurse scholar, advocate, and PhD candidate at the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst. I grew up in a rural village in Bangladesh and became the first in my entire family to graduate from college.

My entry into nursing was accidental. But the profession found me — through a 78-year-old patient who waited three hours after his hospital discharge, just to hold me one last time. That moment changed everything.

I now bring nearly a decade of clinical experience, public health work, and curriculum development to doctoral-level scholarship. My mission is simple and non-negotiable: to build a world where nurses lead the systems they serve.

PhD Candidate in Nursing — University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
MSN, RN — Graduate nursing education, Bangladesh
Founder — Reimagine Nursing & Midwifery Initiative
Languages — Bengali, English (and learning the language of systems change)
Clinical background — Public health, surgical nursing, curriculum development, faculty training
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Scholarship

Research &
Academic Focus

My research sits at the intersection of nursing workforce policy, health systems reform, and the politics of global health. I am particularly interested in the structural forces that keep nurses invisible — and the evidence-based pathways to changing that.

Focus 01
Nursing Workforce Policy in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
Examining the structural, political, and sociocultural forces that constrain nursing practice autonomy in LMICs — with a primary lens on Bangladesh — and developing evidence-based policy frameworks for systemic reform.
Focus 02
4IR Technologies & the Future of Nursing
Exploring how AI, digital health tools, and emerging technologies can be integrated into nursing practice — and how nurses can lead, not merely adapt to, this transformation. Nurses as architects, not afterthoughts.
Focus 03
Decolonizing Global Nursing Knowledge
Questioning whose knowledge counts in nursing science. Advocating for frameworks that center non-Western nursing traditions and innovations as legitimate — and essential — bodies of knowledge for global health.
The Initiative

Reimagine
Nursing &
Midwifery

The Reimagine Nursing & Midwifery Initiative is a growing movement rooted in a single conviction: nursing and midwifery — as practiced globally — must be rebuilt from first principles, not merely reformed at the margins.

What would nursing look like if nurses wrote the rules? What would maternal health outcomes be if midwives had full practice authority? What would global health look like if its workforce was led by those closest to the patient?

These are not rhetorical questions. They are the research agenda, the advocacy platform, and the daily work.

Join the Initiative
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Community Midwifery Outreach
with Dr. Pandora T Hardtmann

Reimagine
Initiative
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Community Midwifery Outreach
Bridging the last mile in maternal health by bringing skilled midwifery care to underserved communities across South Asia.
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Faculty Development & Education Reform
Training the teachers who train nurses. Building capacity for critically conscious, evidence-based nursing education.
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4IR & Digital Health Advocacy
Ensuring nurses are architects — not just users — of the technologies transforming healthcare delivery.
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Diversity & Global Nursing Equity
Centering voices from the Global South and challenging the Eurocentric assumptions embedded in global nursing standards.
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Policy & Systems Advocacy
Translating research into systemic change — and then sitting at the policy table where those changes are made.
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Nursing as a Political Movement
Organizing nurses around the understanding that professional autonomy is not given — it is demanded, evidenced, and won.
My Story

From a Village
in Bangladesh
to a Parallel World

"My journey began in oppression. My work now is to transform that oppression into opportunity — for nurses, for communities, and for the world we serve."

01 The Accidental Beginning — nursing was never the plan →
02 The Identity Crisis — being an "Other" in your own profession →
03 The Turning Point — what a 78-year-old patient taught me →
04 The Systemic Truth — Bangladesh's 'Senior Staff Nurse' problem →
05 From Stagnation to Scholarship — why I came to UMass →
Read the Full Story
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Growing up — rural Bangladesh
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Clinical placement
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UMass Amherst
Teaching & Engagement

How I Show Up

Beyond research and scholarship, I am an educator, a facilitator, and a community builder. Here is how that looks in practice.

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Nursing Education
Teaching and curriculum development in nursing — embedding critical thinking, social determinants of health, and political competency into how nurses are trained.
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Faculty Development Facilitation
Running transformative capacity-building workshops for nursing educators across South Asia, helping faculty teach in more evidence-based, student-centered ways.
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Clinical Collaboration
Engaged in research-practice collaboration with the UMass Amherst team at Baystate Medical Center — bridging the gap between scholarship and the bedside.
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Speaking & Advocacy
Speaking on nursing workforce policy, global health equity, and the political dimensions of the nursing profession. Available for conferences, panels, and university talks.
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Global Nursing Networks
Building and participating in transnational networks of nurse scholars and advocates committed to systems-level change, particularly across South Asia and the diaspora.
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Writing & Public Scholarship
Making nursing scholarship accessible through essays, commentary, and SLAM Posts — writing for nurses who read, and for the public who should care about nursing.
Writing

SLAM Posts

All posts →
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Featured Essay
Why Nursing Will Never Change Until Nurses Learn to Demand Power, Not Just Respect
The oldest argument in nursing advocacy is the appeal to dignity. We ask to be seen, to be heard, to be valued. But respect without power is decoration. This is a call for something harder and more necessary.
Coming Soon · 12 min
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Opinion
The 4IR Is Happening. Are Nurses at the Table or on the Menu?
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare. Nurses must be architects of this shift — not its casualties. A call to act before the decisions are made without us.
Coming Soon · 7 min
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Personal
What a 78-Year-Old Patient Taught Me That No Curriculum Ever Could
On the moment that turned a reluctant, accidental nurse into a lifelong advocate for the profession and the people it serves.
Coming Soon · 5 min
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Policy Analysis
Bangladesh's 'Senior Staff Nurse' Problem — and What It Tells Us About Global Nursing Policy
One designation. An entire career. What this systemic stagnation reveals about the deliberate neglect of nursing as a profession in the Global South.
Coming Soon · 9 min
Get in Touch

Let's Work
Toward a
Better World

Whether you are a researcher, educator, nurse, policymaker, or someone who simply believes that nursing deserves better — I want to hear from you. Collaboration, speaking, mentorship, research partnerships — all welcome.

🌐 Current Website (Google Sites)
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Based in
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Open to global collaboration

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