Dr Marion Lynch is a RN, RMN Public Health Specialist, global health consultant, and a creative health consultant. With 40 years experience in nursing, education, research and national NHS leadership, plus global health roles with Governments and Charities, she still improves health and healthcare, and proves the impact, by putting art and science of nursing at the heart of national policy, professional education and clinical practice. 

Her nursing legacy mission is to build an Art of Nursing social movement. This builds on her Doctorate and 15 years as Associate Dean in the NHS, studying and noticing what works to improve practice and experiencing what is missing in professional education and healthcare. 

Working with the education team at the Nightingale Hospital London during the COVID pandemic changed her career priorities. Since 2021 she has led an Art of Nursing movement. This is a personal creative health mission using the arts to make nurses seen and heard and make 21st Century health care person centred. 

This personal mission to make nurses and nursing seen has resulted in her being nominated as a Gates Foundation Goalkeeper (globally only 200 people per year) and invited to speak at the United Nations. This expertise  informs her forthcoming book How are Nurses and Allies Harnessing the Arts to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Marion uniquely works across health and arts sectors, bringing the underlying knowledge forming, and overarching principles informing the art and science of nursing together philosophically and practically. By bringing her views and nursing experience to the design of global health programmes, and her voice and expertise to the Board of many organisations, 

Marion ensures nursing and nurses are seen and heard, that nurses as system leaders and advocates for social justice are valued, and that nursing knowledge helps deliver all the Sustainable Development Goals. 

As Trustee of Foundation of Nursing Studies, she is helping bring the Art of Nursing into action and hosting bimonthly webinars, fire side chats featuring nurses and artists sharing their work. 

As Trustee of the health and arts Charity Paintings in Hospitals (PIH) she brings nursing ways of knowing into creative health approaches. She develops arts-based well-being resources and writes extensively on the ways arts may help health and health professional education. 

As a Trustee with Human Story Theatre, she helps inform the commissioning of and content of plays that address health issues that are too hot to handle in any other way. She forms part of the expert Q and A panel post performances and provides podcasts to add the health promotion messages useful to sustain the behaviour changes sought through the performances. 

As a Global Health Consultant, she provides technical expert advice to Universities, Charities and Global Health Programme. Since 2022 she has been working with University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda as a nurse education consultant designing the world’s first MSc in Global Nursing Leadership. Launched late 2024 she shall be teaching and assessing learning from February 2025. 

In 2023 she wrote and delivered two modules on the new MBA Global Health Leadership and Management with Coventry University: Transforming Global Health and Resource Management. She then taught and assessed the first international multi professional cohort.

Marion has been a Visiting Professor with University of West London since 2018, teaching on international perspectives on dementia and health system design, and on research methods in the MSc programme. She is Adviser to Tropical Health Education Trust THET supporting the nurse voice within THET strategy, evaluating global health and nursing programmes, and assessing grant applications. She brings nursing into her such global roles. 

Her advocacy roles include nurse leadership mentor for the SIGMA Global Leadership programme and a gender equity mentor for UGHA. Her research and nursing expertise roles include expert input to ITAD global programmes as monitoring and evaluation expert and nursing knowledge expert on into the design and delivery of major global health programmes. Marion balances these leadership and academic / research roles through her company, the website showing her global and artful nursing influence Quality Education and Research Ltd. 

She also runs a small charity, Fiona Foundation for Kids which works in collaboration with other global health and social welfare charities to develop volunteer skills and empower mothers. 

Never one to not practice what she teaches; she is a respite and short-term emergency foster mother for vulnerable and unwell babies in Buckinghamshire England. In summers she goes to sea as volunteer medical cover with the Ellen MacArther Cancer Trust. When volunteering as boat mate and nurse/ medic she combines her Yachtmaster level sailing skills and nursing skills and helps build health, confidence, joy and new life skills  by taking young people (aged 8-24) and recovering from cancer to sea on life changing residential sailing adventures.