The seventh annual Heartland Global Health Consortium Conference, “Educating for Sustainable Global Health,” will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in Parents Hall of Drake’s Olmsted Center. The event is free for students, faculty, and staff. Registration is required and includes lunch.
The conference will include panels on the following topics:
- Service learning from the community partner perspective
- Food insecurity, waste, and “Next Course,” the food recovery program at Drake
- Social determinants of health
- Development in a global context: summer internships in Mysore, India
- A partnership model for service-learning based on authentic, holistic community dialogue
- Service learning, “voluntourism,” and ensuring that communities benefit as much as students
- EMBARC and educational aspects of its work
- Medication use on medical mission trips