Patience Mbozi
Mastercard Foundation scholar
PgDip in Global Health Research
Zambia
Patience Mbozi, a Registered Nurse from Lusaka, Zambia, is a Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research at the University of Oxford. She is a Palliative Care Nurse Specialist and Clinical Nurse Practitioner with 17 years of experience. She has an MSc in Clinical Nursing from the University of Zambia and an MSc in Palliative care from Oxford Brookes University-UK.
She is currently employed as a Lecturer and coordinator of the MSc Palliative Care program at the University of Zambia (UNZA). Before this, she worked as a Senior Lecturer at Chreso University and at Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) for 11 years, initially as a Registered Nurse and later as a Head Palliative Care Nurse.
She has provided consultancy services to various institutions in Lusaka, including the Ministry of Health, where she participated in the development of the National Palliative Care strategic plan 2021 to 2026, and UNZA, where she participated in the development of the MSc Palliative care curriculum and clinical protocols. Patience has been honoured with numerous accolades, including the Judy Lentz award from the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses’ Foundation (HPNF) for providing excellent palliative care; the Ian Jack award from Hospice Africa Uganda; the THET scholarship; the Hospice UK-Wolfson International Bursary; recognition as the most honest nurse at CDH in Lusaka, Zambia; and the title of best overall student in both theory and practical at Lusaka School of Nursing in 2008. Patience has a strong interest in innovation and participation in research projects that would promote evidence-based practice in the fields of academics, palliative care, and clinical nursing practice.