Professor Aisha Holloway is Chair of Nursing Studies at The University of Edinburgh, Programme Director for the global programme Nursing Now Challenge the largest global community network of early career nurses, midwives and students, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Fellow of the RCSI and RCN.

Fostering philanthropic engagement, she co-founded and is co-director of the Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative. She has held a number of Government, Non-Government Advisory and Board roles within the UK and Internationally. Most recently was appointed to sit on the Scottish Ministerial Taskforce for Nursing & Midwifery report launched Feb 2025 and sat on the State of the Worlds Nursing (SoWN) Steering Committee launched May 2025.

She has built a strong research programme spanning 30 years in public health and alcohol and workforce with a strong focus on health policy and political nurse leadership.

Her research focuses on RCTs, Intervention development and theoretical elements of health behaviour change. She works at the interface between nurse led research and policy influence. She recently worked for the WHO HQ in Geneva in Health Workforce, with a specific focus on Nursing Workforce.

Aisha is committed to early career nurses leadership development and policy influencing to strengthen the global position of all nurses to lead themselves and their profession for global impact and health for all. This can only be achieved through strategic focus and investment in those nurses entering the profession and providing opportunities, mentorship and networks to thrive and rise.