This complimentary symposium isn’t just about dialogue—it’s about action! Join us on Sunday, May 19, at Pacific Union College (PUC) and dive into the complexities of global health issues through the lens of collaborative, health equity. From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., immerse yourself in dynamic discussions, interactive breakout and poster sessions, and insightful keynote speeches.
Whether you’re in academia, healthcare, religious-based work, or at a non-profit organization, don’t miss this opportunity to exchange ideas with, learn from, and develop partnerships with passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds in global health. Your voice and actions matter in achieving collective global health and well-being for all.
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Event Highlights
Special Perks For You
Registered nurses can receive 5 hours of continuing education for attending the event.
Network with the Community
Visit booths by local organizations.
Hear from Experts in Global Health
Gain invaluable insights from experts tackling pressing global issues.
Unlock Global Health Solutions
Be inspired by Dr. Gilbert Burnham and learn from his experience in international health crises, including work in conflict zones and disaster areas.
MPH in Global Health
Students that meet the qualifications can now complete an MPH in Global Health in 5 years vs six years through PUC Bachelors and LLU 4+1 program. Learn more about the 4+1 program.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Gilbert Burnham
Global Change: Looking at Now and Tomorrow Through a Public Health Lens
Gilbert Burnham is an emeritus professor of International Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He graduated from Glendale Academy, Southern Adventist University and Loma Linda University, with further training in internal medicine. He holds an MSc and PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After six years in the US Army, he spent 15 years as medical director of Malamulo Hospital in rural Malawi. After joining the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he established the Center for Humanitarian Health to leverage public health to help mitigate population effects of disasters and conflict. Since its establishment, the Center has worked in many countries from China to Latin America and Africa, Ukraine, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Southern and Southeast Asia. In recent years, Dr Burnham has worked extensively in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza. He teaches regular courses at Johns Hopkins, Yonsei University in Korea, the National University of Singapore and for the World Health Organization in the Eastern Mediterranean. Thousands of students have completed his online courses. He is an author of some 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Inaugural Global Health Symposium
A Collaborative event with Pacific Union College and LLU School of Public Health
Schedule of Events
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introduction - Dr. Ralph Trecartin, President of Pacific Union College |
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gilbert M. Burnham: Global Change: Looking at Now and Tomorrow Through a Public Health Lens
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| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch will be provided |
| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
Breakout Session 1 |
| 2:30 - 2:45 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 - 3:45 p.m. | Breakout Session 2 |
| 3:45 - 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion- "Innovative Solutions and Best Practices"
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| 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Breakout Sessions
1. Josue Orellana Guevara: Emerging trends in Global Health for humanitarian organizations
While humanitarian crises are springing up here and there in the world, protracted and chronic global health issues are refusing to fade away or are resurging on a more complex fashion. What do humanitarian organizations, like ADRA, need to do to stay relevant in responding to people’s needs?
Josue Orellana Guevara is a physician and also holds a Master of Public Health with a focus on maternal and child health. Dr. Orellana Guevara joined the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in 2002 and has held various positions within the global ADRA network, acquiring extensive experience in community health and international development. Most recently, he spent four years as ADRA Country Office Director in Mongolia and three years as Country Director in Nepal. In 2018 he became Director for Health, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation at ADRA International.
As part of his professional career, Dr. Orellana Guevara has promoted healthy behaviors and best practices in maternal and child health, reproductive health, nutrition, hygiene, and non-communicable diseases, including tobacco control and lifestyle programming. Since his tenure in Asia, he engaged in research efforts to develop approaches to promote a healthy lifestyle suitable to limited resource settings.
2. Ronald Mataya: An Integrated Approach to Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Low Resource Settings
Ronald Mataya is currently Professor of Global Health at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine’s Global Women’s Health Initiative which allows him to continue working in Malawi supporting the ob/gyn residency program at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences formerly the University of Malawi College of Medicine.
Before joining the School of Public Health, he worked at the international head offices of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Silver Spring, Maryland, as the Director for Health Programs. There he led a team of public health experts in over 15 countries in implementing different health interventions in family planning and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, child survival and nutrition.
Prior to that he worked in his home country of Malawi as an obstetrician and gynecologist with special interest in women's health nationally and globally. As a result of this interest and his work in Malawi, he won a scholarship to study health policy and management as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. He attended medical school at the West Visayas State University in the Philippines and trained in ob-gyn at the Taiwan Adventist Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.
3. Ryan Sinclair: Community Science and Environmental Monitoring a Eutrophic Lake
Ryan G. Sinclair is an Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and Assistant Professor in the department of Earth and Biological Sciences. He completed his PhD on water quality from Tulane University and has a post doc in Environmental Microbiology from the University of Arizona. He was recently awarded the 2021 SCAQMD Dr. Robert M. Zweig clean air award.
4. Kristen Orlando: Human Trafficking: Identification, Response, and Prevention.
Kristen Orlando has been a deputy district attorney since December of 2015. She graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2015 and began her career as a deputy district attorney with Calaveras County shortly after. Kristen joined the Napa County District Attorney’s office in 2017. Kristen specializes in human trafficking, child sexual and physical abuse, and sexual assault cases.
5. Philip Wegner: The Story & Challenge of Tuberculosis: The greatest failure in the history of public health
Philip Wegner is a Registered Public Health Nurse and Director of Nursing for Lake County, California. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with degrees in Religion-Greek, History and Nursing. He holds a Master’s of Community Health (known now as MPH) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. After graduation he worked for Doctors without Borders in Turkmenistan, Mercy Corps in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan and with Concern Worldwide as Health Advisor for USAID Child Survival Programs in Bangladesh, Haiti, Rwanda, Burundi, and Niger. He worked for the Oregon Health Authority and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services as a TB Nurse Consultant. He has also worked for USAID in Indonesia as Infectious Disease Team Leader and volunteered for the TB & Leprosy Free Project in the Marshall Islands. In all he has over 28 years of experience in Tuberculosis. In addition to his current job, he is also a TB consultant for the Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis. He is passionate about history and tuberculosis and hopes to write a book about the History of Tuberculosis. He teaches a course at Pacific Union College in Global Health Systems.