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: : Slideshows : : Powerpoint Presentations : : Directory

Plenary Panel I
• Jeff Passel Pew Hispanic Center
(presentation made by S.Larson, slideshow available here is a modifed version of J.Passel's original)

• Jeff Crisp
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Randall Kuhn University of Denver
Presentation Unavailable

 

Plenary II: A Critical Look at the Health and Human Rights of Economic Migrants
• Kenneth Goodman University of Miami
Presentation Unavailable

• Ed Zuroweste Migrant Clinicians Network

• Sarah Paoletti

University of Pennsylvania
Presentation Unavailable

 

Plenary III: Call to Action: Coalition Building and the Healthcare of Economic Migrants
• Peter Bloom

Mexicanos Juntos
Presentation Unavailable

• Ulrich Gaillard

Batey Relief Alliance
Presentation Unavailable

• Moises Perez

Alianza Dominicana
Presentation Unavailable

 

Concurrent A1: Healthcare Challenges of Global Migrants
• Ed Zuroweste

• Marc Schenker

Healthcare Challenges of Global Migrants: Farmworker Health

Randall Kuhn

Presentation Unavailable

 

 

Concurrent A2: Tools for Global Health
• Howard Adelman

Governance of Physicians in a Globalized World: Developing a transnational research program for medical regulation

• Candace Kugel

Health Network: A tracking and referral program for mobile underserved patients

• Lois Ritter

Using Telemedicine to Serve Medically Underserved Regions

 

Concurrent A3: Global Health Education I: Curriculum Development
• Judy Lewis,
Deyanira Gonzalez de Leon Aguirre

The Women and Health Learning Package
• Breyette Lorntz

Faculty Development for Curricular Design of Service-learning Courses Focused on Global Health
Presentation Unavailable

• Tom Novotny Global Health Diplomacy: Pedagogy for our Times

• Tom Hall Improving the Quality of Global Health Education: Teaching modules with a wiki capability

 

Concurrent A4: Student Experience I: Approaches to Global Health
• Andrew Suchocki Advocates for Global Health: The ride for world health

• Helena Chapman Interdisciplinary Global Health Team: Critical role of public health students

• Tammy Chang Challenges in Valuing Sustainability: Four years of student experience

• Hannah Kirking,
Matt Youg
Interdisciplinary contributions to global health


 

Concurrent A5: Evolution of Overseas Programs
• Andre Vulcain Presentation Unavailable

• Amit Kochhar Project Medishare Surgical Specialty Programs: 4 years of trials, tribulations and success stories while coordinating the overseas program

• Paul H. Park Recognition and Fulfillment of Opportuntiies in Guatemala to Expand Grassroots through the Creation of Global Partnerships

 

Concurrent B1: AIDS in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

• Jean William Pape

Presentation Unavailable

• Eddy Perez-Then Presentation Unavailable

• Arthur Fournier Presentation Unavailable

 

Concurrent B2: Ethics / Research / Trials
• Brady Beecham

Ethics of Clinical Trial Migration to Developing Countries

• Megan Duncan

Using Community-based Participatory Research to Develop Effective Health Interventions in Rural Ghana

• Stephanie Albin
Ethics of Giving Gifts to Physicians from the Perspective of Pharmaceutical

 

Concurrent B3: Global Health Education II: Post-graduate Training
• Stephen Schultz Global Health within U.S. Family Medical Residency Programs

• Pierce Gardner
The Fogarty International Center's Clinical Scholars Program
Presentation Unavailable

• Demian Szyld Buidling Bilateral Bridges: Training opportunities for Guatemalan surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania

• Laura Baecher

The Impact of Global Heatlh Curriculum on Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident Physicians

 

Concurrent B4: Student Experience II: Researching the Educational Journey
• Avita Sooknanan
Students and their Role in International Health

• DeAnna Friedman Putting International Experiences within Reach

• Jessica Douglas Global Health Opportunities
Presentation Unavailable

• Paul Drain 'Caring for the World': The first comprehensive guidebook to global health and medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent B5: Empowering Communities for Health
• Wilfrido Torres
Salud Shuar: Health promotion in Shuar communities in Ecuador

• Leopoldo Carretero Impact of the ILAC Cooperadores (Health Promoters) Program in the Dominican Republic

• Connie Vance Empowering Dominican Women: A model for community-based education of rural promotores

• Christine Gabali Literacy: A fundamental resource for global health
Presentation Unavailable

 

 

 

 

 


 

Concurrent C1: Impact of Global Migration on the Health of Women and Children
• Candace Kugel
Consider the Migrant Woman

• Jack Ludmir Obstetric Care for Migrants in Philadelphia: Challenges, Frustrations and Successes

• Mercy Mwang Kamau Health Protective Behaviors of Recent Kenyan-Canadian Immigrant Women

• Deanna Perez-Williams Collaborating with Migrant Communities through Community-based Participatory Research

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent C2: Policy Change Through Research
• Marc Schenker
Immigration Policy Change through Research: Occupation Health Issues

• Charles Branas Using Epidemiologic Research to Improve Health Policy

• Liane MacDonald Health and Foreigm Policy in the Context of Migration

• Javier Sevilla-Martir An Academic Health Center's Approach to Migrant Health Care

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent C3: Global Health Education III: Teaching and Learning
• Eric Houpt
Global Health Education for All Medical Students

• Breyette Lorntz The Design of a Course Preparing Students for Global Health Fieldwork
Presentation Unavailable

• Janice K. Smtih Global Health: Strengthening capacity through interdisciplinary work

• Lena Winestone,
Pauline Brutlag
Rethinking International Health: An innovative approach to teaching international health at Stanford University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent C4: The Student Experience III: Student-led Programs and Projects
• Laureen Ojalvo,
Carolyn Sayer
The Organization of a Student-run Social Medicine Course


• Sean O'Neill,
Chelsey Petz
Project CURA (Creighton Medical United in Relief Assistance)


• Olga Valdman Medical Students in the Bateys

• Caroline DeFilippo,
Daniel Eiras
Medical Student Service Trips: Shedding light on health concerns faced by rural Belizeans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent C5: Family Planning & Maternal and Child Health
• Judy Lewis,
Bette Gebrian
KOMBIT: Working together to save mothers and newborn lives


• Sural Shah A Case for Law and Public Health: Legal advocacy for internally displaced women and reproductive rights in Nepal
Presentation Unavailable

• Mara Saunders

Knowledge, Power and Choice: Determinants of fertility and contraceptive use in a low-income Dominican population

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent D1: IMBY: Serving U.S. Migrant Communities
• Marc Schenker
Presentation Unavailable

• Stephen Symes The Jay Weiss Residency in Global Health and Internal Medicine

• Cregg Ashcraft Global Health, Right at Home: Latino and Somali immigration raises the need for 'global health' in Columbus, Ohio

• Oscar Gonzalez Building Capacity for HIV Prevention and care Along the U.S./Mexico Border

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent D2: Psychosocial Mental Health
• Aunali Khaku
Psychiatric Illness and Stigma in Tanzania: A qualitative study

• Manish Patel An Assessment on the Mental Health Issues on the Acholi People with regards to the Conflict Occurring in Northern Uganda
Presentation Unavailable


• Adriana Smith,
Kirk Dearden
Medical Pluralism and Health-seeking Behavior among Indegenous Migrants in Bolivia

• David Strug Mental Health Interventions for Older Primarily, Dominican and Chinese Immigrants in New York City Suffering from 9/11-related Psychological Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent D3: Global Health Education IV (workshop): Building an Immigrant Clinic
• Matthew O'Brien
Presentation Unavailable

• Rebecca Bixby Presentation Unavailable

• Carol Mendez Presentation Unavailable

 

 

 

 
 

Concurrent D4: Student Experience IV: Reports from Central America
and the Caribbean
• Peter Volsky,
Matthew Harrington
Cooperadores de Salud: Empowered community leaders providing health education and increasing access to health care in the rural Cibao region of the Dominican Republic

• Margarita Dubocq ILAC Summer Health Care Program in the Dominican Republic

• Lisa Zittergruen Changing Roles of Midwives in Rural Guatemala: A student reflects on a summer experience

• Sherry Ann Brown A Short Term Holistic Experience in Community Health