Institute for Global Health
Addressing the Roots of Human Suffering through utilizing research and innovation to help identify and address the root causes and not just the symptoms.
Who Are We?
Institute for Global Health seeks to come alongside frontline health workers to assist in overcoming the complex challenges they face. We do this through educational programs such as the Christian Global Health in Perspective course and through certificate and graduate programs. We will also assist in overcoming the factors leading to human suffering by utilizing research and innovation to help identify and address the root causes and not just the symptoms.
Publications
Check out the latest publications from the Institute for Global Health
Projects, Opportunities, & Resources
Check out the current opportunities and resources from the Global Health Institute of Health. We hope to offer some health focused courses in our M.A. in Development Studies in the near future.
Christian Journal for Global Health
A peer-reviewed, scholarly, and multidisciplinary journal on global health policy and practice, promoting evidence-based and thoughtful analysis on effective and innovative approaches to global health from an integrated Christian perspective.
The Journal publishes evidence-based research and Christian reflection addressing the biological, social, environmental, psychological, and spiritual determinants of health in a global context. The broad scope of the journal facilitates actionable learning and capacity building in development contexts within a scholarly framework. Topics include:
Community and Public Health (Health Promotion/Prevention, Nutrition and Food Security, Environmental Health, Maternal and Child Health, Community Development)
Health Care Services (Primary Health Care, Surgical Service, Disaster and Emergency, Rehabilitative services, Mental Health, Palliative Care)
Organization (Administration and Finance, Policy and Advocacy, Workforce)
Mission and Health (Theology, Outreach, Transformational Development)
Conditions of Special Interest (HIV/AIDS, Non-Communicable Disease, Neglected Tropical Diseases)
Christian global health in perspective course
Discover how to use your health-related training to intelligently impact the world. This is an online course to prepare you for engaging in global health ministries. Many people feel uncertain about how to participate in God’s work in the world. This course helps you to answer questions like:
How do I use my gifts for God’s Kingdom?
Where should I invest my time and resources?
How can I fulfill God’s will in my life?
What is my calling?
After engaging health and healing through a biblical, historical, cultural and strategic framework participants walk away with a greater clarity about whether God is calling you into a life of healthcare missions, global health service, or transformational development - locally or globally. Our prayer is that you will be equipped to be part of God's ongoing work to bring health, healing, and wholeness to people of all nations.
Peer Consultations
Feeling stuck? As a leader you may face an adaptive challenge - a problem with no clear choices, known solutions, or technical fixes. Our team cares about challenges like yours. To help you take your next step forward we will bring together an interdisciplinary team of peer consultants who will listen carefully and offer possible interpretations and reframing of the challenge. Our hope is to empower you with a list of small action steps from which you can choose 3-4 to do in the next six weeks in order to get unstuck.
Conferences
The following is a list of some of the most well known health related conferences, or ministries that host conferences, which are presented from a distinctly Christian worldview. If you have any other suggestions for links to conferences not listed please let me know @: mjsoderling@gmail.com
International Wholistic Mission Conference
ACCORD
Christian Connections in International Health conference
Christian Community Health Fellowship conference
Christian Medical and Dental Association
International Christian Medical and Dental Association
Missio Nexus
KAMHC/GMMA
Christian Community Development Association
The following are similar events/organizations that conduct conferences that have a health related focus but which are not Christian in their foundations.
American Public Health Association
Global Health Council
Institute for International Medicine
Unite for Sight
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Resources
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The Lausanne Movement’s "State of the Great Commission Report" calls for a sustainable approach to health, addressing physical, mental, and social well-being. In a world facing complex challenges, the church is invited to embrace Whole Person Care (WPC), reflecting Jesus' healing ministry and offering a holistic model of peace and restoration.