CURE International: Investing in Surgical Training to Reach More Children in Need
by Joel Witwer, Lead Storyteller, CURE International, Ethiopia You know that story in the Bible where the boss is going on a long business trip, and he gives three of his employees some cash to see what they can do with it while he’s gone. The first one...
COVID-19, Faith and Health, Sponsor
ACHAP and IMA World Health Partnership Enabled Rapid Response to COVID19
by Rebecca Waugh, Faith-Community Engagement Senior Advisor, and Matt Hackworth, Marketing and Communications Senior Advisor, IMA World Health As COVID-19’s spread escalated from a regional phenomenon to a global pandemic, IMA World Health staff reacted like many other practitioners of public health in the international space. Even as...
Technology in Global Health: An Instrument of Impact
By Jessica Mussro, Communications Coordinator at American Leprosy Missions Since our founding in 1906, American Leprosy Missions (ALM) has accelerated the exploration and application of novel solutions to cure, care and end high-morbidity neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) like leprosy. These diseases affect more than one billion of the...
Nurses Cultivating Health at EMU
by Donald Tyson, PhD, MSN, Professor and Program Director, Eastern Mennonite University Department of Nursing This year’s CCIH conference theme Cultivating Unity in Global Health fits well with Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) nursing and other health care educational programs. And especially in the past year with the pandemic,...