Schedule
Schedule is updated regularly as details are confirmed. Please check back.
I. Pre-Symposium on the PLU campus
January 16, 23, 30 and February 7, 12, 20, 21
Global Health Symposium Film Series
Rx for Survival ‘The Heroes’ or ‘Delivering the Goods’ (sponsored by Biology Club and ASPLU-HUMP event)
Wednesday, February 20, 8 p.m.
University Center, The Cave
Using highlights from the acclaimed six-hour Rx for Survival series, this special focuses on the individual heroes whose tireless perseverance saves millions of lives across the globe. From young polio warriors in India to armies of grandmothers in Nepal, Rx for Survival — The Heroes takes viewers inside the stirring campaigns that have brought renewed faith to poor communities from Africa to South America. This unique special is the true story of individuals whose creativity, leadership and determination are finally giving hope to people who have known only poverty and disease, but who can now dream of a safer and healthier future.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Concurrent Student Sessions
Thursday, February 21, 1:45 to 3:30 p.m.
1. Health Economics (J-Term Econ 323)
The Russian Health Care System: Starting Over -Catherine Stout
Swiss Miss or Hit: Does Swiss Health Care Reform Work? -Amy Spieker
Canada’s Health Care: A Model for the U.S.? - Jared Rayborn
Session Organizer: Karen Travis, Associate Professor and Chair of Economics
Location: University Center, Regency Room
2. (Fall Semester 2007: Lutheran College Consortium in Tanzania Program)
Malaria, HIV/AIDS – Brian Wehmhofer
Polio: Tanzania’s Forgotten Disease – Jessica Baumer
Location: University Center, 133
II. Symposium in downtown Tacoma
Thursday February 21, 2008
5:30 to 7 p.m.
Opening Reception
Non-Governmental Organizations and other organizations will present information and display tables during the reception.
Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, Foyer
7 to 7:15 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, Ballrooms C and D
7:15 to 8:45 p.m.
Keynote Address by Stephen Lewis
“Time to Deliver: Winning the Battle Against Poverty and Disease in the Developing World”
Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center, Ballrooms C and D
Ambassador Lewis is the former United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and named by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the “100 Most Influential People in The World.”
http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/documents/SLSHORTBIO-OCTOBER2007.pdf
III. Symposium on the PLU campus
Friday, February 22, 2008
8 a.m.
Breakfast (by invitation only)
Speakers’ breakfast with student hosts from multiple campus organizations.
9:15 to 10:20 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
1. Non-Governmental Organizations
The Impact of Malaria on Everyday Lives
World Vision: Anne Peterson, MD; head of Global Health and Nutrition Task Force
University Center, Regency Room
Dr. E Anne Peterson is a long time public health physician whose career has spanned the globe, from teaching “barefoot doctors” in rural African villages to the decision tables of Washington. For almost six years in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Zimbabwe) she focused her expertise on community development, public health training and AIDS prevention. Dr. Peterson consulted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization in Haiti and Brazil and served for three years as the Health Commissioner for the State of Virginia. Prior to joining World Vision, Dr Peterson was in charge of health programming at the USAID. She led U.S. government’s international health policies and represented the US on boards such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), GAVI, Stop TB, and the Child Survival Partnership. Currently she is Director of the Center for Global Health within World Vision’s new strategy unit, IMS/ITT, guiding World Vision’s refocused and reinvigorated effort to improve the health and well-being of children.
Clean Water and Global Health in Less Developed Countries
Steve Deem, P.E., International Programs, Water 1st International
Terry Adams, PhD, Member, Board of Directors, A Child’s Right
University Center, 134
Water 1st International’s mission is to serve families in the poorest communities in the world as they implement community-managed projects that integrate water supply, sanitation, and health education. We envision a world free of extreme poverty. Providing people with safe water systems, latrines, and hygiene education is the 1st step to ending the cycle of poverty and death. Water 1st wants to unite people to fight this worldwide, silent catastrophe. We believe the global water crisis will be solved when we build a community of concerned individuals and motivate and mobilize them to take simple, effective actions. http://water1st.org/about/index.html
A Child’s Right believes that all children, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender or location, should be and can be afforded the most essential of needs to improve their lives and ensure their healthy development. Clean drinking water is the single most important ingredient for healthy children the world over – yet thousands and of children die every day due to a lack of potable water. In this day and age, with the support of those in the more prosperous nations, this should no longer be a privilege for some, but should be a basic right of every child.
A Tacoma-based, A Child’s Right is a nonprofit relief agency formed by a collective of concerned professionals wishing to change the current living standards and health of impoverished children the world over. To date A Child’s Right has installed UV water purification systems in Cambodia, China, Laos, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, and in 2008 expects to install systems in Columbia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
http://www.a-childs-right.org
2. Non-Governmental Organizations from PLU Study-Away Locations
The Tobago Health Promotion Clinic, a model for Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment in Resource Limited Countries
The Tobago Health Promotion Clinic (in Scarborough, Tobago): Raymond Noel, M.D., Medical Director
University Center, 133
Raymond Noel
Raymond Noel, M.D. is the Medical Director of The Tobago Health Promotion Clinic, a pilot HIV-Chronic Disease Treatment Project in Scarborough, Tobago. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Noel was educated in the United States, where he received his Bachelor's Degree from Howard University in 1972. He graduated from SYNY Buffalo MD with Thesis Honors in 1976. His post graduate medical training was completed at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Arizona-Tucson. Dr Noel completed his Medical administrative training MPA at Valdosta State University of the University of Georgia, and since then he has been involved in HIV/AIDS Policy development, Care and Treatment at the Valdosta State Prison and Georgia area 8 Rhyan White Clinic as Medical Director.
Tradition, Indigenous Medicine, and Global Health’
Lobsang Namjyal, Vice Director, Khams/Kampo Association / (Kangding, Sichuan, China)
Verónica Esteban Hernandez, Presidenta de PROSA (Oaxaca, Mexico)
South Hall, Lounge
Lobsang Namjyal
Lobsang Namjyal was a monk as a boy, trained as a traditional Tibetan doctor, then attended college in Qinghai Province. He is fluent in Chinese, Tibetan and English, and now is vice director of a new Tibetan-run NGO in Kangding, Sichuan Province called Khams Kampo Association that seeks funding from foreign sources for development projects in the Kham region of Western Sichuan and in Qinghai Province (both Tibetan minority areas). Their work ranges from training traditional Tibetan medicine doctors to training midwives to developing libraries for rural schools to manufacturing and distributing solar batteries and cookers. To sustain funding for all this, they are developing an eco-tourism business that will receive foreign visitors and take them on trips around the Western Sichuan region, visiting Tibetan cultural sites. They have a website that currently seems to be unavailable.
Gesar Lhamo
Gesar Lhamo attended college in Qinghai Province and is the office manager and English-language liaison person for a Tibetan NGO in Kangding, the Tangla Tsewang Culture and Arts Research Society that helps sustain and preserve the sacred Tibetan arts, particularly the paintings called Thankas. They are developing a museum for these in Kangding. She is also a board member for the Khams Kampo Association represented at the symposium by Lobsang Namjyal.
Promotores de Salud en Defensa de la Vida del Pueblo
PROSA is a non-profit health organization that provides grassroots, indigenous health care in remote areas of Oaxaca, Mexico. While the central office has a clinic, the main focus of PROSA’s energy is on training health educators who visit rural communities, both treating health problems and training other community members to prevent and treat other health problems naturally. In this manner, PROSA has organized seventeen different indigenous groups through over five hundred rural health providers in over one hundred and sixty locations throughout Oaxaca. In addition, the central office has a complete inventory of herbal medicines and creams made entirely from native plants from the mountains of Oaxaca available for purchase.
3. Global Health Research
Global Health in the State of Washington
Scott Jackson, vice president of external relations, PATH
Morken Center, 103
Scott Jackson
Scott Jackson is vice president of the External Relations team at PATH, responsible for maximizing the visibility of PATH’s work. In his current role, he focuses on developing and strengthening relationships with global health partners and donors. His extensive background and knowledge come from more than 20 years of experience working internationally to develop and carry out a number of successful global health and development public-private initiatives. Prior to joining PATH, Mr. Jackson served as senior vice president for World Vision US. He serves on several national boards, including Global Impact, and was a founding member of the management committee for ONE, the campaign to make poverty history. He received his MBA from the University of Edinburgh, School of International Business, which he attended as a Rotary International Ambassador Scholar. http://www.path.org/
From Washington to the World: New Solutions for Infectious Diseases
Marilyn Parsons, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, http://www.sbri.org/Home/
Ramstad Common, 202
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), advances global health. Our infectious disease research is the foundation for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that benefit those who need our help most: the 14 million who will otherwise die each year from infectious diseases. A non-profit organization founded in 1976, SBRI has nearly 250 staff members working in research labs in Seattle and field labs in Tanzania. By partnering with key collaborators around the globe, we ensure that our discoveries will save lives sooner. For more information, visit www.sbri.org.
4. Global/Local
At One Time We Did Not Have Hospitals!
Connie McCloud, Puyallup Tribal Health Authority, http://www.eptha.com/
University Center, 201
Global Health/Local News
Tom Paulson ’81 , science and medical writer, Seattle Post Intelligencer
University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center
Tom Paulson
Mr. Paulson has been a science and medical reporter for the Seattle Post Intelligencer since 1987. A Seattle area native and 1981 (chemistry) graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, he also has master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to covering all aspects of science news, He has for nearly a decade reported on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's rapidly expanding influence on the global health scene.
10:30 to 10:55 a.m.
UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
"Stretching Toward Honesty"
Led by Lindsey Leeder, The Krista Foundation
Mary Baker Russell, 322
Lindsey Leeder
Ms. Leeder is originally from Tacoma, WA, where she attended high school at Bellarmine Preparatory. She graduated from Seattle University in 2002 with a Bachelors of Arts in Theology and a Bachelors of Science in General Science. Following graduation, Lindsay joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and worked as a nursing assistant in an AIDS hospice in Houston, TX. It was during this time that she became a Krista Colleague through the Krista Foundation. After completing her volunteer experience she moved to Los Angeles and continued to work as a nursing assistant, while discerning her future career in medicine. She returned to Seattle University, completed a Masters of Science in Nursing and was certified as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in 2007. She continues to live Seattle and works as a family nurse practitioner in the city of Edmonds, remains a Krista Colleague, and is on the Board of Directors of the Krista Foundation. http://www.kristafoundation.org/top.php?page=/aboutinside.php
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Plenary Address by William Foege ’57
“From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: The Changing Face of Global Health”
University Center, Chris Knutzen Hall
William Foege
Dr. William Foege is a senior fellow on health policy with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and also with the Carter Center. As an epidemiologist Dr. Foege was chief of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Smallpox Eradication Program. Later he served as the director of the CDC, and then as the Executive Director of the Carter Center, including heading the Task Force for Child Survival and Development. http://usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2007/11/12/william-h-foege.html
12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
LUNCH BREAK
Dining available at University Center Commons, University Center Old Main Market and at restaurants on Garfield Street and Pacific Avenue.
1:45 to 3 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
5. Non-Governmental Organizations
Silent Disasters: from Darfur and Southern Sudan to Uganda and Haiti’
Medical Teams International: Joe DiCarlo, Director of Disaster Relief
University Center - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International, originally called Northwest Medical Teams, grew from the vision of Ron Post, a businessman, who in 1979 watched on television the mass suffering as thousands of Cambodian refugees escaping the Khmer Rouge stumbled across the border into Thailand, ‘as if looking for a quiet place to die.’ Less than a month later, he led a group of 28 medical volunteers to care for the survivors of Cambodia’s killing fields. Continuing this legacy, and following its mission ‘to demonstrate the love of Christ to people affected by disaster, conflict and poverty worldwide,’ MTI sent its 1500th team of volunteers in 2006. Through the generosity of companies and individuals, MTI has sent millions of dollars of medical supplies and other humanitarian relief to bring aid where all hope is lost. MTI forms partnerships with in-country organizations to effectively and efficiently use its resources, and to build its partners’ capacity through supplies, training and personnel, thus enhancing their partners’ mission to serve the vulnerable, poor and marginalized, and increasing the program’s sustainability. http://www.medicalteams.org/site/PageServer?pagename=who_main
Listen and Be Flexible: How to Make a Difference in the World
Fight for the Children: Bradley R. Berg, MD, PhD, President, and Kathryn Morgan, Executive Director
University Center, 133
Fight for the Children
Based in Mt. Vernon, Wash., Fight for the Children was founded in 2006 to provide medical services and care to children globally by supporting the communities in which they live to fulfill their specific health goals. Working with local healthcare providers, FFTC’s mission is “a world where no child shall suffer from a preventable, treatable or curable illness.” These goals are furthered by its clinics in East Africa that serve a region of over one million children and its commitment is to provide basic health care such as vaccines, examinations, and medicines to children around the world that do not have access to basic medical needs. Dr. Berg is a full-time pediatrician in Mount Vernon, Wash. http://www.fightforthechildren.org/
6. Non-Governmental Organizations from PLU Study-Away Locations
Mapilelo (Namibia): A Place of Survival
Jerry Mameja, project administrator
University Center, 201
The Mapilelo Project
The Mapilelo Project is about the introduction of a prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS and the provision of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART) for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Caprivi Region, a region with an over 40 percent HIV/AIDS infection rate. This holistic, community-based treatment support programme is supported by the Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company.
Jerry Mameja
Jerry Mameja is Managing Partner of New Dimensions Consultancy Pty Ltd (NEDICO). IN addition to his work with the Mapilelo project, he also oversees a team of experts implementing the Global Fund Programme in Namibia (one of the biggest donor funded programmes in Namibia). He has also worked with projects and NGOs in the Gambia, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe working in the areas of needs assessment, project design, strategic planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation plans, coordinating the recruitment and engagement of national and international consultants, technical support, and supervising evaluation (baseline surveys, mid- term and end of project evaluations). He earned a BA in Economics/Industrial Psychology from the University of Namibia, and an MPhil in Economic Policy from the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).
Indigenous Medicine and Modern Medicine: Are They Compatible? Examples from India
India Partners: Brent H. Hample ’86, president and co-founder
South Hall, Lounge
India Partners
India Partners is a U.S. Christian development and relief organization committed to supporting self-help ministry projects in India and sharing the compassion and wisdom of Jesus Christ. By partnering with the people of India—cultivating, sharing resources, and encouraging self-sufficiency—India partners helps the people of India help themselves. Their partner organizations in India serve all regardless of caste, religion, gender, or creed, and together provide for development assistance, training local leaders, disaster relief, and education. India Partners has been working in India for over 22 years. http://www.indiapartners.org/
Brent Hample
Brent Hample was raised in Eugene, Oregon. One night in 1981, Brent was called in a dream to serve the poor of India. He visited India the first time in 1987, his first of ten visits. He has been involved with India Partners since its formation, and since 1994 has served as its CEO. Brent earned a B.A. in Psychology from Pacific Lutheran University in 1986, and was a graduate student at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Since 1981, Brent has served in leadership and Board positions for Christian and secular nonprofits in Oregon, Washington, California, and Minnesota.
7. Global Health Research
At the Crossroads - Where Natural & Social Sciences Majors Join to Address Global Public Health Problems
Michelle A. Williams, Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Rieke Science Center, Leraas Lecture Hall
Michelle A. Williams
Michelle A. Williams Sc.D., is Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington. She is also Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center and Affiliate Investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her major research interests and activities are women’s reproductive health and child health. Her current activities include research and teaching collaborations with epidemiologists in Peru, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and the Republic of Georgia. In 1994, Dr. Williams developed the University of Washington Multidisciplinary International Research Training (UW-MIRT) Program, which trains students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds for research and leadership careers in public health. By identifying and implementing alliances for this global health program, Dr. Williams provides undergraduate students with life enriching and academically rigorous experiences in developing countries. At the same time, students and faculty in the MIRT Program dedicate themselves to addressing real global public health problems with their partners in developing countries. The MIRT program represents a win-win solution for all involved. Dr. Williams went to Princeton as an undergraduate, where she studied developmental genetics and molecular biology. After Princeton, she earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering at Tufts University; and then a doctorate in Epidemiology at Harvard University in 1991, joining the faculty at the UW after completing a post-doctoral fellowship there.
Dr. Williams has received numerous awards for teaching and research. She is most proud of are those that have recognized her contributions to training the next generation of scholars and leaders. These include, in 2005, the Seattle Girl’s School Grace Hopper Exemplary Leadership Award for her sustained commitment and achievements in creating learning opportunities for students, particularly those from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, in fields of math and sciences. In 2007, on behalf of the MIRT Program, the Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence, and in November 2007, the Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) This national award recognizes excellence in the teaching of epidemiology during the course of a career.
Business Skills for Social Ills: Private Sector Solutions to Global Health Problems
David J. Olson, Director of Public Affairs, Population Services International (PSI)
Morken Center, 103
PSI
PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival and HIV, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement. PSI is the leading nonprofit social marketing organization in the world. PSI has an uncommon focus on measurable health impact and attempts to measure its effect on disease and death much like a for-profit measures its profits. In 2006, PSI estimates that its programs directly prevented more than 218,000 HIV infections, 6.7 million unintended pregnancies, more than 140,000 child deaths from malaria and diarrhea and 34 million malaria episodes. Its world headquarters is in Washington, D.C., with programs in more than 60 developing countries, and a European affiliate in London. http://www.psi.org/
8. Global/Local
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Eradication of Global Poverty
Adam Smith, United States Representative, representing Washington’s 9th district, www.house.gov/adamsmith
University Center, Regency Room
3:30 to 5 p.m.
symposium Workshops/Wrap-up
Concurrent sessions building on theme of “Time to Deliver”
A Workshop for Students
Joyce V. Millen, Ph.D. with Willamette university students: Jasmine Azpiri and Elliot Williams from the Student Global AIDS Campaign
University Center, Regency Room
This workshop will provide students with a brief introduction to today's student activism and global health advocacy. It will offer concrete, hands-on tools and tried and true techniques for collective student action. Students will have an opportunity to discuss pressing issues, including new and emerging technologies to effectuate positive social change; the roles of charisma and motivational speech; the problems of complacency and the concept of generation Q; the question of how much we need to know before we take action; and the quandaries of limited time and personal efficacy. Each student will receive an advocacy tool kit and will leave the workshop feeling inspired and equipped to join their peers from universities throughout the country who are working to redress the structural violence and injustices that leave so many in our world without adequate access to the most basic of human resources.
A Workshop for Community Members
Bobby Righi, Founder, Seattle Grandmothers Group
Edith Owen, Pierce County Relatives Raising Children
University Center, 133
The Stephen Lewis Foundation launched the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign in March 2006. The campaign serves as a call to action to support Grandmothers in sub-Saharan African countries who are currently raising their grandchildren because their children (the parents) have died of HIV/AIDS. Since the beginning of the campaign, more than 190 grandmother groups in Canada and internationally have been organized and are working to raise money for grandmothers in Africa. Seattle has a Grandmothers group and its founder, Bobby Righi will lead this workshop along with Edith Owen from the Pierce County Relatives Raising Children program (part of the Child & Family Guidance Center). They will discuss the joys and challenges of starting your own Grandmothers group along with information about similar circumstances requiring grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren here in Peirce County.
A Workshop for Health Professionals
Zoey Dering ’93, Project Hope and Indonesian Tsunami Relief
Carol Koller, Director of Development, Medical Teams International.
University Center, 201
This workshop will introduce health care professionals and students in health fields on the active role volunteers can take on with NGOs). Discussion will include how to identify and select groups to team with, understanding the on-board processing, and developing cultural competence to promote health. Participants will also have opportunities to view actual slides from the 2005 Tsunami Relief in Banda Ache, Indonesia, depicting NGOs from around the world working as a team.
5:15 p.m.
HIV/AIDS Candlelight Vigil Closing Ceremony
Sponsored by Campus Ministry and ASPLU's Global Awareness Committee
A time to reflect and commemorate those who have died from HIV/AIDS and
those who are currently suffering from the disease, as well as the friends
and family who it has also affected. The vigil will consist of prayers,
hymns, and reading of names.
Centennial (Red) Square
Additional Resources
Additional Resources related to global health issues may be found at:
http://globalhealthreporting.org/
http://www.fightforthechildren.org/get-fact