October 2008           Global Health: From Catastrophe to Cure

 

Hope College Critical Issues Symposium
Topic: Global Health
Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2008

September 30

  Time Event Location
  7:00 p.m.

Keynote: Laurie Garrett
"Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health"

 

Dimnent Chapel

 

October 1

  Time Event   Location
  9:00 a.m.

Keynote: Dr. Peter Okaalet
"Toward Total Health In Practice: MAP International's Approach"

   Dimnent Chapel
  10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions    
   

a) Laurie Garrett
"Follow Up with Laurie Garrett"

  Maas Aud.
   

b) Faculty Panel (Moses Lee—moderator)
"Yes You Can! Navigating the Call in Lifelong Service to Improve Global Health"

  Harvey Blankespoor
  Annie Dandavati
  Barb Osburn
  Amanda Barton
  Jeff Brown
  VanderWerf 102
    c) Jalaa' Abdelwahab
"Epidemiology and Public Health: Where is polio these days?"
   Wichers Aud.
    d) Tim Geary
"Achieving Science-based Local Solutions to Health Problems: Tropical Perspectives" 		  Cook Aud.
    e) Kristen Johnson & David Cunningham
"How is God Involved in the Global Health Crisis?"
   Science Ctr. 1000
         
  1:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions    
   

a) Hope College Alumni Panel (Amanda Barton - moderator)

  Nicole Buono
  Laura Ellis
  Tarah Fron
  Will Nettleton
  Cook Aud.
    b) Braddigan 
"Artistry and the Call to Social Action" 		  Wichers Aud.
    c) Dr. Dereje Desta
"The Search for Products for Global Health" 		  VanderWerf 102
   

d) Dr. Peter Okaalet
"Towards Competent Church Responses to HIV and AIDS: Challenges and Opportunities"

  Maas Aud.
         
  2:15 p.m.

Department Sponsored Sessions

a) “Cheap, Clean Water: World Health & Transformation...
One Child at a Time”
Dr. Robert McDonald
Sponsored by Economics, Management & Accounting

b) “The Eradication of Pediatric AIDS, A Call to Action”
Nicole Buono
Sponsored by Modern & Classical Languages

 c) “Diagnosing Global Health: A Brief History of the
Development and Treatment of Global Health
Disparities”
Jonathan Hagood
Sponsored by History

d) “Student Activist Work on Global Health Issues:
What are you going to do?”
Student Panel (Julie Kipp - moderator)

  Timothy Brandt
  Kelli Carrier
  Anna Pizzimenti
  Rachel Rees
Sponsored by Women's Studies Program

e) “Health Communication and Global Health"
Maria Lapinski
Sponsored by Communication

f) "The Social Impact of Global Health in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Janell Ball & Laura Kadzban Pridgeon
Sponsored by Sociology/Social Work

g) "Drinking Water and Community Health in Developing Communities - Interdisciplinary Activities at Hope College"
Panel of Hope College Engineering, Nursing and Education Students

  Timothy Carter
  Daniel Gruben
  Lillie Lodge
  Laura Petrasky
Sponsored by Engineering and Nursing 		 



Science Ctr. 1019




Maas Aud.



Martha Miller
Center 239




Cook Aud.











Fried-Hemenway
Aud.


VanderWerf 104



VanderWerf 102

         
 
7:30 p.m.
Braddigan Concert                            
  
Knickerbocker Theatre
   
October 3
   
  8:00 p.m.

"On the Edge of the Knife: Rape as a Tactic of War in the DRC"
A play sponsored by Women's Issues Organization and co-sponsored by Hope's Chapter of Amnesty Internationald Acting on AIDS

Tickets are a suggested donation of $5 to the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo

   Fried-Hemenway
Aud.
   
October 5
   
  3:00 p.m. "On the Edge of the Knife: Rape as a Tactic of War in the DRC"
A play sponsored by Women's Issues Organization and co-sponsored by Hope's Chapter of Amnesty Internationald Acting on AIDS

Tickets are a suggested donation of $5 to the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo
   Fried-Hemenway
Aud.
         
         
   
Reception and Book signing following keynote
at the Science Center Atrium
Books available for signing