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Julia M. Challinor

RN, PhD, MA, MSc Medical Anthropology

925 38th Ave Spc 46, Santa Cruz, CA 95062

United States of America jmchallinor@gmail.com


A former teacher, Julia was the Educational Liaison for children with cancer and those who had survived their disease at the University of California, San Francisco from 1993-2003. During 1994-2006, she also headed A Tomorrow for Children Foundation and worked in partnership with pediatric oncology centers that are members of the Asociación de Hemato-Oncología Pediátrica de Centro America (AHOPCA), collaborating with Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (Canada) (POGO), and the Monza International School of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Italy) (MISPHO).

Julia M. Challinor, RN, PhD, MA Education, MSc Medical Anthropology || 36 Rockview Dr. Santa Cruz, California 95062, United States of America || jmchallinor@gmail.com

Julia M. Challinor, RN, PhD is an international nursing consultant for oncology with an anthropological perspective. Julia seeks to strengthen nursing resources and opportunities in countries with limited resources. She advocates for these nurses to be recognized as critical and essential members of any multidisciplinary team working to improve cancer care across the globe.


Julia's current professional focus is mentorship of pediatric oncology nurses in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) to advance nursing leadership and improve nursing care while recognizing local realities, limitations, and possibilities. She also offers support and mentorship to LMIC oncology nurses wishing to publish their research findings in peer-reviewed journals. Julia also serves as a volunteer Associate Adjunct Professor of Nursing at the UCSF School of Nursing in San Francisco, California, USA.



As past co-chair (and now member) of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) Pediatric Oncology in Developing Countries (PODC) Committee, Julia works with colleagues from across the globe who are members of nine Working Groups and five Task Forces addressing such issues as Essential Medicines, Training and Education, Nursing, Adolescent and Young Adults, and Patient and Family Engagement. This network of volunteers has written multiple publications including position statements, guidelines, and protocols for use in LMIC. Their ongoing advocacy for the 80% of the world’s children who live in these settings has brought increased attention to childhood cancer as a priority in national cancer control plans.

 

In the past, Julia has worked in partnership with members of the Asociación de Hemato-Oncología Pediátrica de Centro America (AHOPCA), the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (Canada) (POGO), and the Monza International School of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Italy) (MISPHO), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology of Argentina (SAHOP), and the Latin American Society of Pediatric Oncology (SLAOP) and Childhood Cancer International (CCI). In addition, she serves as a consultant for multiple international projects for childhood cancer and pediatric oncology nursing.  

 

Julia's past work as the SIOP Advocacy Officer led to a successful effort to gain WHO NGO recognition for SIOP (achieved in 2018). This then expanded to her collaboration in three workshops on childhood cancer in 2016 held in conjunction with WHO and CCI in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Ghana. Other tasks include a continued liaison role with WHO Headquarters in the area of Non-Communicable Diseases, e.g., SIOP advocacy on childhood cancer text in the current WHO draft Cancer Resolution (2017) and continued collaboration on the SIOP WHO work plan and WHO Global Childhood Cancer Initiative and nursing activities, with a focus on Latin America and Africa. As the past SIOP Secretary General, and current member of the SIOP Advocacy Committee Tobacco Task Force and SIOP Global Mapping Programme, her role includes expanded service to the Society, partners and stakeholders to improve global access to treatment and care of children and adolescents with cancer and address issues of survivorship. This work includes a focus on supporting efforts to achieve universal health care and advocacy in all aspects of childhood cancer.

 

Additional current activities include English copy-editing for academic manuscripts, grant proposals from various universities in Europe and (volunteer) academic support for graduate nursing students at the UCSF School of Nursing. Julia continues to serve as a member of the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON) Global Outreach Committee and the Spanish sub-Committee, which is currently in year 10 of a comprehensive initiative to offer the APHON Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Provider Course in Spanish across Latin America. Julia is also a contributor to Oncopedia articles on pediatric oncology nursing on the Cure4Kids website based at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the U.S.