
Agnes is a lecturer at Nursing Science Program of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Cenderawasih. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in nursing from Universitas Katolik De La Salle, Manado in 2008 and her Master’s degree in public health from the University of Kentucky in 2014.
She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in public health nursing, with a focus on communicable disease control, especially tuberculosis (TB). Her proposed research will focus on developing a manual of TB cultural competence that can be used as a guide for nurses to deliver care.
On finishing her degree program, she will return to her home institution and continue her work in in TB nursing, teaching, and training nurses in Papua based on her research findings.
For her Fulbright Doctoral degree program in nursing science, Agnes is placed at University of Washington.