Rate My Professor Animesh Ghimire

Animesh Ghimire is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, where he has been appointed since March 2023. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Western Sydney University (2015–2018), a Master of Science in Nursing (Anaesthetics & Recovery) from the University of Tasmania (2020–2022), a Master of Education (Research) from Deakin University (2023–2024), and a Master of Public Health from the University of Wollongong (2024–2025). Concurrently, he serves as a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Prosperity Initiative Nepal and as a Visiting Fellow at Chitwan Medical College since 2023. Animesh teaches NUR2008 - Global, public and primary health, contributing to nursing education on international health perspectives. His professional engagements include affiliations with the United Nations Association of Australia and Médecins Sans Frontières.

Ghimire's research specializes in ethics, education, public health, and health systems, with a focus on nursing, health workforce migration, human rights, gender studies, and the climate-sustainability nexus. As a social scientist, he employs mixed and qualitative methodologies to address global health equity, particularly in the Global South. He has delivered invited presentations at international conferences and serves as principal investigator on competitively funded projects that translate evidence into policy and practice. His scholarly outputs, totaling over 30 items, appear in high-impact journals such as Nursing Ethics, Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, BMC Nursing, Nurse Education in Practice, The Open Nursing Journal, Frontiers in Public Health, Developing World Bioethics, and others. Key publications include 'Ethical implications of nurse brain drain on undergraduate nursing students' (Nursing Ethics, 2026), 'From Global Standards to Local Action: Practical Pathways for Adopting the International Council of Nurses’s Updated Definitions' (Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 2026), 'Between duty and despair: the ethical toll of brain drain on Nepalese nurse managers' (BMC Nursing, 2025), 'A Lifeline or a Line in the Sand? Nursing Students' Perceptions of the Commonwealth Prac Payment' (The Open Nursing Journal, 2025), 'Beyond altruism: Exploring the diverse motivations of undergraduate nursing students' (Nurse Education in Practice, 2025), and 'Nursing Outside the Lines: Identity, Policy, and the Rise of Gig Economy Nursing' (2026). His work advances knowledge on ethical challenges in healthcare and informs global health policy.