Outcomes: to see North Koreans as people made in the image of God (Gen 1:27); to be peacemakers (Mt 5:9); to love North Koreans as Jesus would (Mt 5:44). To see that healthcare is a strategic way of engaging with the people of DPRK.
Malaria affects an estimated 300-600 million people a year around the world with around 2000 cases of malaria brought back to the US each year. This session will focus on the current treatment and symptom control of malaria around the world and in the US. Current research on prevention and vaccine development will also be discussed.
In this session we will explore ways to identify educational needs based on clinical challenges and shortcomings, and discuss ways of creating educational curricular activities to meet these needs. The presenter will draw upon his experience creating emergency medicine curricula in Ethiopia to share how to conduct a needs assessment, develop a curriculum, engage stakeholders, and measure succes...
Although public awareness has increased in the last few years, there still exists common misconceptions that human trafficking only involves kidnapping or always leads to commercial sex exploitation. Today in every country there are men, women and children trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and cannot leave. It is estimated that there are over 25 million people worldwide s...
How do you keep up with the demands of ministry while balancing the needs of family, not to mention your own needs? • How do you keep doing more with less? • How do you protect yourself from burnout while advocating for the least of these? • How do you establish boundaries without neglecting the needs of your community? • What does work–life balance look like? These ar...
Knowledge of good health practices often does not change health behaviors. This session will share proven ways to motivate people to change their health behaviors using non-financial incentives as demonstrated in a community health program that has changed the health of 1.2 million people. These techniques are applicable in both the USA and abroad.
Description of how an FQHC in Memphis, TN partnered with resettlement organizations to provide domestic medical screenings and a medical home for those recently arrived. The vision and our clinic operations will be described as well as time to network and think about how any place of medical care might welcome refugees.
This session focuses on caring for the short-term mission worker - pre-travel matters to be addressed, encountered challenges during travel and common scenarios of the returning worker.
Are you: - Interested in mission and wondering what it really means for you and your family, and if you have what it takes? - Curious to know how one may start and sustain a ministry in resource-limited settings in a foreign country from scratch with no money, no team, and no knowledge about far too many things? - Looking for practical tools and resources to prepare for mission? Through the yea...
