Deva Marie Beck

Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, DTM is a Canadian American nurse and award-winning Florence Nightingale scholar who has been working-for three decades-on citizen advocacy for achieving global health. She has served, since 2006, as a volunteer International Co-Director of the NGO called Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH) — traveling to 25 countries, leading NIGH’s work on UN Briefings, workshops, group discussions, online updates, webinars, feature articles, photojournalism, video, keynote presentations across the world and to achieve the United Nations Economic & Social Council (UN ECOSOC) ‘Special Consultative Status.’ She has recently achieved the highest-level award from Toastmasters International — Distinguished Toast Master ‘DTM’.