Allison Squires

Allison Squires, Ph.D., FAAN, RN, is a Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is a global health services researcher with two focal areas: creating a sustainable nursing workforce and improving immigrant health outcomes. Prof. Squires is also the Founder and Director of the Global Consortium of Nursing & Midwifery Studies (GCNMS). In addition to holding multiple national and international leadership positions in nursing organizations during her career, she has consulted with the Migration Policy Institute, the International Council of Nurses, and the World Bank on nursing and health workforce issues and produced several major policy analyses with their teams, and continues to serve as an expert resource on nursing workforce issues globally.

She has several projects currently funded by domestic and international funders. Domestically, she is studying the impact of language barriers on hospital nursing practice and evaluating the impact of the Magnet journey on small hospitals.  Her current funded international studies focus on nursing workforce capacity building in Greece, Ghana, and Guyana. Her signature project, the GCNMS, is now an 87-country research consortium collaborating on capacity-building initiatives in nursing and midwifery worldwide. The consortium’s current research study examines the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing and midwifery workforces globally.
Prior to entering academia full-time, Squires worked as a staff nurse in solid organ transplantation and as a staff educator for 11 years in the U.S. healthcare system, in both rural and urban settings. Her practice has since shifted largely to community-based nursing roles as a volunteer.