School of Public Health news
- School of Public Health presents Healthy People 2003 conference
- SPH faculty journey to South America
School of Public Health presents Healthy People 2003 conference
The School of Public Health office of continuing professional education at Loma Linda University presents Healthy People 2003. This event will take place March 11 to 13 with the theme “Public Health—Moving Into the Future.”
Attendees will learn how to be more effective in clinical care and communication as they keep up to date with the wealth of information dispersed throughout the world. Four different topics will be explored:
- Making the Technology Yours (March 11),
- Integrative Medicine (March 12),
- Bio-technology: The Pros & Cons of Super Foods (March 12), and
- Lifestyle Change (March 13).
Nearly 20 different presentations will be given by speakers from around the nation. Included under the topic of integrative medicine is a presentation called “Botanicals as Medicine” in which participants will understand the history of using plants to alleviate disease and symptoms of disease. Because integrative medicine is becoming very popular, it is important for health professionals to know about the latest trends and why people are turning away from traditional medicine.
Presentations on genetically engineered foods will be shared as well. Participants will be able to critically assess biotechnology and place it in comparative context with other methods of food production.
The “Making the Technology Yours” session will
present information on how technology is being used in clinical, community,
and academic settings.
During this session physicians will learn to use the American Medical Association
(AMA) “Users’ Guides Interactive” which has recently
been developed on the AMA website. The two-hour training lab in the evening
will give physicians hands-on experience.
Special rates to attend Healthy People 2003 apply for employees of LLU and LLUMC. For details, contact Dianne Butler at (909) 558-4835 or e-mail her at dbutler@sph.llu.edu.
You can find more information and the schedule of events online at www.llu.edu/llu/sph/cpe/0303healthy.html.
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SPH faculty journey to South America
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| In the front row, Patricia K. Johnston, DrPH, MS, RD (right), dean and professor, School of Public Health; Gary Hopkins, MD, DrPH (left), assistant clinical professor, health promotion & education; and Carlos Grau, MD, MPH (middle), director, public health program, Universidad Adventista de Chile (UNACH), pose with the MPH students at UNACH. |
Four faculty members from the School of Public Health departed for
Chile and
Peru last month to visit and/or teach at LLU’s sister institutions of higher
education.
Patricia K. Johnston, DrPH, MS, RD, dean and professor, School of Public Health;
Christine Neish, PhD, associate dean and associate professor, health promotion & education;
Gary Hopkins, MD, DrPH, assistant professor, health promotion & education,
were accompanied by Janelle Pyke, MA, director, University records. They made
their first stop at Universidad Peruana Union (UPeU), Lima, Peru.
At UPeU they discussed the proposed master of public health (MPH) program with
the director, a SPH alumnus, Cesar Galvez, DrPH, and the administrative leadership
of the university. The president of UPeU, Leonor Carbo, PhD, will come to LLU
to sign a memorandum of understanding at the Healthy People banquet which will
feature the School’s off-campus programs.
After the Peru visit, they departed south for Universidad Adventista de Chile,
Chillan, Chile, where the Andes Mountains and Chillan volcano are a short distance
from the campus. The School of Public Health offers an MPH program there with
most of the current students about half-way through.
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| John Morgan, DrPH (back row, right), associate professor, epidemiology/biostatistics, School of Public Health; his wife, Doree, MPH, RD (right); daughter, Carly (second from right); and son, Jesse (front row, right), pose with the families they got to know while in Chile. |
The students, mainly pastors who are working on their MPH degrees, come from
all across South America and even Honduras, spending two months of their summer
vacation to take the classes. The LLU faculty visited with the current MPH students
and the new director of the public health program, Carlos Grau, MD, MPH.
“ The people in South America are committed to public health,” says
Dr. Johnston, “and are eager to apply the principles from our classes
to solving the problems in
their countries.”
When the group arrived, John Morgan, DrPH, associate professor, epidemiology/biostatistics,
School of Public Health, was just completing the course “Principles of
Epidemiology.”
Dr. Morgan’s family went with him as well. His wife, Doree Morgan, MPH,
RD, health educator, Kaiser Permanente, and an adjunct faculty member at LLU
School of Public Health, used her Spanish speaking skills and helped him communicate
with the South Americans. His children, Jesse, 14, and Carly, 12, made friends
with the children in Chile even though they couldn’t speak the same language.
“ We were treated like cherished family members and had a great time,” says
Dr. Morgan. “Despite the language barrier, fellowship was evident.”
Dr. Hopkins, who is also the coordinator for SPH South American programs, taught
the final week-long course titled “AIDS Prevention.” The class
was taught from the perspective of adolescents since more than 50 percent of
all
AIDS cases in the world happen to people who are less than 25 years of age.
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