Official Program

39 Pages·2016·2.4 MB·English

“Bridging Borders at Home and Abroad”

Official Program

Creighton University
Omaha, NE
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Mission Statement

Our mission is an interdisciplinary effort to address health
disparities among marginalized populations nationally and
internationally. Through education, advocacy, and service, we

aim to raise awareness of global issues by engaging
individuals and communities to partner with those who are

made vulnerable.

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To Our Attendees -

This program is intended to serve as an overview of the Global

Health Conference Midwest 2016. Use this program to get to
know our speakers and panelists, as well as find out more

about our Research Symposium and additional programming
offered. For talk descriptions, please reference the

accompanying Session Guide included in your folder.
May your conference experience both challenge and

enlighten you!

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Table of Contents

Conference Overview ......................................................................................................... 6
Keynote Speakers ................................................................................................................ 7
Photojournalism Exhibit ................................................................................................... 10
Backpack Journalism ........................................................................................................ 11
Community Fair Participants ............................................................................................ 12
Research Symposium ....................................................................................................... 13
Speaker Guide: Breakout Session Leaders and Panelists ............................................ 24
GHCM 2016 Team ............................................................................................................ 34
Steering Committee ......................................................................................................... 35
Sponsors ............................................................................................................................. 36
Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................... 37
Notes .................................................................................................................................. 38

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Conference Overview

Friday, February 5, 2016
4.00 – 5.00 pm Participant Check-In
5.00 – 5.10 pm Conference Introduction & Program Overview
Renaisa Anthony, MD, MPH
5.10 – 6.00 pm
“We Are the World: A 21st Century Health Perspective”
6.00 – 7.30 pm Research Symposium
7.30 – 8.30 pm Reception
Cocktail Reception
8.30 – 10.00 pm
Bricks & Mortar Bar and Bistro, Downtown Omaha
Saturday, February 6, 2016
7.30 – 8.30 am Breakfast Hour & Check-In
8.30 – 8.45 am Conference Welcome
Duncan Maru, MD, PhD
8.45 – 9.35 am “Building Public Sector Businesses for Healthcare Delivery: View from
Nepal”
9.45 – 10.50 am Breakout Session 1
11.00 – 11.45 am Panel Discussions
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch Hour & Community Fair
1.40 – 1.45 pm Introduction
Steve Luby, MD
1.45 – 2.35 pm
“Lead Intoxication in Rural Bangladesh: Undermining a Healthy Future”
2.45 – 3.30 pm Breakout Session 2
3.40 – 4.10 pm Awards & Closing

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Friday, February 5

KEYNOTE 5:10 – 6:00 PM

Renaisa S. Anthony, MD, MPH
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Renaisa S. Anthony is a licensed, practicing physician and public health
practitioner. She is the Deputy Director of the Center for Reducing Health
Disparities at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Assistant Professor in
the Department of Health Promotion in the College of Public Health and practices
medicine at the Charles Drew Community Health Center. Her professional and personal
commitment to eradicating health disparities and improving the lives of women, children and
families across the globe have developed over a myriad of professional and personal experiences.
She is an advocate for Healthy People 2020 goals to “eliminate disparities, achieve health equity
and improve the health of all populations.” Dr. Anthony has traveled the globe delivering quality
health care, public health and policy initiatives for the most vulnerable of communities. Some of
her most notable achievements include; being honored by the US Surgeon General for her
contribution to the Surgeon General’s Conference on Preterm Birth, testifying before Congress in
support of the Affordable Care Act and being invited back to Congress the day it was passed,
earning the 2010 American Public Health Association Leadership and Advocacy Award, in 2011
the National Medical Association’s Top Doctor Under 40 Award and her 2012 TEDx Talk entitled
“A Recipe for Health Equity.” She earned her medical degree at the University of Chicago, Masters
of Public Health at Harvard University, medical training at Vanderbilt University and fellowship in
health policy at the National Institutes of Health and the Office of the Surgeon General.

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Saturday, February 6

KEYNOTE 8:45 – 9:35 AM

Duncan Maru, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Duncan Maru, MD, PhD, is an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in the Division of Global Health Equity and an Instructor in Medicine at
Harvard Medical School. He is the Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, and a
non-voting Board Member of Possible, a For-Impact organization delivering
high-quality, low-cost healthcare to the world's poor. His research focus is on using
implementation science research methods to improve the delivery of evidence-based healthcare
interventions in settings of extreme poverty. He also practices part-time on the Complex Care
Service at Boston Children’s Hospital. Duncan graduated from Harvard College, received his
MD/PhD from Yale University, and completed the Harvard Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics
Program and the Brigham and Women’s Global Health Equity Residency Program. Duncan’s work
as a doctor and epidemiologist has generated over 35 peer-reviewed articles. In 2013, he was
named a ‘Young Star in Global Health’ by Grand Challenges Canada and a 2015 Social
Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation.

PANELIST: Forming Global Partnerships: A Complex Journey
(Session Guide, Page 3)

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Saturday, February 6

KEYNOTE 1:45 – 2:35 PM

Steve Luby, MD
Stanford University

Steve Luby grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied philosophy at Creighton
University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1981. He earned his MD
degree from the University of Texas--Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. He
completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester’s Strong
Memorial Hospital. He lived for 5 years in Karachi Pakistan where he conducted research and
taught epidemiology at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. He lived in Bangladesh for 8 years
where he directed the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the International Centre for
Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also held various positions
within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently he is a Professor of Medicine
at Stanford University and the Director of Research for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global
Health. Dr. Luby is best known for his work demonstrating the impact of handwashing on disease
reduction in low income countries, characterizing the epidemiology of Nipah virus transmission in
Bangladesh, and explicating the importance of unsafe injections for transmission of hepatitis C in
low income countries. His current research focuses on developing practical solutions to
environmental problems that directly impact human health in low income countries. He works
primarily in Bangladesh. His ongoing projects include 1) assessing the health impact of strategies
to improve water, sanitation and hygiene with particular attention to interventions that are
applicable at scale; 2) reducing the adverse environmental and health consequences of brick
manufacturing in Bangladesh; 3) reducing the exposure to lead among residents of rural
Bangladesh; 4) characterizing and preventing zoonotic disease transmission especially of henipa
and influenza viruses. He has mentored 30 early career scientists to publish their first scientific
manuscript in a peer reviewed international journal. He has authored >250 referenced
publications.

PANELIST: Current Topics in Global Health
(Session Guide, Page 3)

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PHOTOJOURNALISM EXHIBIT

Father Don Doll, S.J.
Professor Emeritus of Photojournalism,
Holder of the Endowed Heider Chair at Creighton University

Don Doll, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and well-known photographer whose work has
been featured in National Geographic, [Hunters of the Bering Sea, June 1984,
and The Athabascans along the Yukon, February, 1990] and a number of the Day
in the Life of...books, including America, California, Italy, Ireland, Passage to
Vietnam, and Christmasin America. He was introduced to both photography and to the Lakota
people when hewas assigned to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota as a young Jesuit. Two
of hisbooks on Native Americans are: Crying for a Vision [Morgan and Morgan, 1976, Dobbs Ferry,
NY], and Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation [1994, Crown
Publishers, New York]. His Vision Quest CD- ROM was published in 1996, and the Vision Quest
Exhibit has opened in 20 cities. In September, 2012, Magis Productions with Creighton University
Press published A Call to Vision: A Jesuit’s Perspective on the World, a 224 page coffee table book
with 188 of his photographs from his fifty year career as a photographer. In May of 1997, Fr. Doll
was awarded the prestigious Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism at the
National Press Club in Washington, DC, for his many years of work with Native Americans. On
January 31, 2006, Doll received Nebraska’s “Artist of the Year,” award given biannually at the
Governor’s Awards luncheon sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council. Fr. Doll has been active in
the National Press Photographers Association. He was a speaker on the 1976, and the 1981
NPPA’s Flying Short Course six city tour. He has received special recognition in the Nikon “World
Understanding through Photography” Award [1976], the Robin F. Garland Award, [1988], lst Place
Magazine Feature in the 1988 Pictures of the Year. And he was a Pictures of the Year judge in
1989. He also served as a faculty member for eight of the annual University of Missouri’s
Professional Photojournalism workshops. Since 1969 Doll has lived and worked at Creighton
University, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is a professor of Journalism holding the Charles and
Mary Heider Endowed Jesuit Chair. A two-year project, “The Jesuits” has taken him around the
world. One of his stories from this project, “Finding Ernesto” aired in November 1999, on ABC’s
Nightline with Ted Koppel. In 2003 he completed a series of landscape and panorama
photographs of the Lewis and Clark trail between St. Louis, Missouri, and the Pacific Ocean near Ft.
Clatsop. Since 2005, Doll has photographed for the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda, Southern
Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, the Congo, Chad, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He will be
returning to the Congo next month with the new director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, Fr. Thomas
H. Smolich, S.J.

Father Doll’s work can be seen on his website:
http:// magisproductions.org
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