CEO
Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health (known online as NextGenU.org)
Miriam Chickering, RN, BSN, NE-BC, is the CEO of the Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health (known online as NextGenU.org) and the Founder of Nurses International. NextGenU.org programs include The Addiction Training for Health Professionals Program, Humanitarian U, Public Health U, and STEPS (STEM Teacher/student Education for Primary Schools).
Ms. Chickering specializes in globally scaled solutions for healthcare and education. The NextGenU.org platform freely provides learning materials through >3,500 institutions and in every country, while Nurses International creates free, critically needed learning materials for nurses in over 140 countries. Humanitarian U has trained over 30,000 humanitarians globally, and Public Health U trains 150+ Masters-Level Public Health students each year from 57 countries. The Addiction Training for Health Professionals Program, which focuses on training physicians in substance use disorders, and provides this training to users in medical schools and other audiences throughout the United States and globally. STEPS is an active research project in Benin, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo that serves teachers and more than 10,000 primary school students in four school systems. To achieve positive outcomes with scaled solutions, Ms. Chickering builds and manages competent, responsive, courageous teams that empower recognized leaders in healthcare and education to identify and address the wickedly difficult problems that prevent the emergence of health and education equity for all people.
Further accolades include: Elite Achievers’ Club 2024, CIO Women's Magazine; Women We Admire, Top 50 Women Chief Executive Officers of 2024. Receipt of 2024 and 2023 Women We Admire Award for Minnesota Top 50 Women Leaders. Other recent accolades include Ms. Chickering’s 2021 Humanitarian Service Award for Transformative Global Leadership in Democratizing Education from NHSD/Humanitarian Pakistan and for co-authored research she led, which received the 2021 Translating Science into Nursing Education award from Sigma.