2009
Global Health: Who cares?
The symposium identified deep inequities that affected globally and individually human beings and points towards possible solutions. Some of these inequities were: how diseases, chronic, conditions, and local environment affected individual and communal health differently and the existing inequities
Key Note Speaker
Carol Bellamy, Head of UNICEF for ten years, CEO of World Learning and President of its school for international training.
Plenary Speakers
Nathan Wolfe,
Art Simon, Founder and President Emeritus of Bread for the World
Johanne Sekkenes, Director of Operational Support, Doctors Without Borders
Breakout Speakers
Dr. Ann McElroy, Associate Prof of Anthropology, University at Buffalo.
Mariah Dreisinger, Program Manager, Washington University Schools of Medicine and Social Work.
Amanda Stevens, M.Ed. R.D, L.D., Health Educator Westminster College.
Alice Bloch, Dance/Movement Educator, Center
Dr. Bob Hansen, Interim VP& Dean of Student Life, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, Board of Directors, Humanity for Children.
Nathan Wolfe,
Dr. William Folk, Professors of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Colombia.
Dr. Jennifer Dowd, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hunter College Faculty Associate, CUNY, Institute for Demographic Research.
Robert Hamilton, Consultant on African Projects and Programs.
Dr. Steve Alexander, Professor of
Tim Harlan, National Alliance on Mental Health, Missouri, Vice President.
Dr. Harold Koenig, Vice Admiral, Medical Corps, United States
Dr. Todd Savitt, Professor of
Ryan Krull, Tobacco Free Community Project Coordinator.
Traci Harr, Coordinator, Columbia Tobacco Prevention Initiative.
Scott K. Heysell, MD, MPH, Burroughs Wellcome Fund/American Society of Tropical Medicines and hygiene Fellow in Tropical Infectious Disease, University of Virginia.
Ryan Baker, Health Policy Analyst, Missouri Foundation for Health.
Rose Nanyonga-Clarke-Board Member: Board of Directors International Medical Group and Doctoral Student at Yale University
Greg Richard, Vice President, Laboratory Corp. of America.
Rob Schaaf, MO representative, Chairman of the Health Care Transformation Committee, MO house of representative Paul Devota, MO House Minority Leader.
Ann Cohen, State Nutrition Specialist.
Dr. Gilliam Air, George Lynn Cross Professor and Vice-Chair, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Westminster Alumni: Jacque Sanders, Andre Kindade, Derick Dailey, Fon Komkai, Paola Protti Nunez Edward Munyeshuli, Erick Hunt, Patrick Davey.