This award recognizes a citizen who is a role model in providing healthcare for his or her own people. The 2018 National Healthcare Service Award Recipient is Betsy Sutherland. As an elementary school teacher, Betsy became absorbed over the tragedies surrounding human trafficking, including labor, sex and child trafficking. She carried these convictions […]
This award recognizes one who has made significant leadership contributions to bridging cultural gaps in healthcare services and has set an example for other leaders to emulate. The 2018 INMED Cross-Cultural Healthcare Leadership Award recipient is Mary Smith. In 1988 Mary, a master’s degree trained registered nurse, traveled with her Methodist church to
This award recognizes an individual who has made an important impact in training future international healthcare personnel. The 2018 INMED International Healthcare Preceptor Award Recipient is James, a Kansas City native who began his career as a youth pastor in El Salvador. James later qualified as a registered nurse, serving at Saint Luke’s
Providing compassionate healthcare for neglected people is virtuous but also accompanied by doubt and dubious views by our peers. For these reasons, the Humanitarian Health Conference each year is a refreshing event, bringing us in touch with like-hearted people… …none more like-hearted than Nathaniel Uhl and Lana Borden! Both single nurses in Kansas
Success with a long-term commitment in a new culture is highly associated with the ability to verbally communicate. People who are fluent in the common language are at a great advantage. By contrast, inability to communicate most always results in frustration for everyone involved, and renders ineffective even the most talented, intelligent, and well-intentioned
The Cultural Competence Continuum, drawn from the work of Arthur Kleinman, suggests that there are definable levels in individual and organizational responses to cross-cultural interaction. What is your level? Cultural Destructiveness is the most negative stage, characterized by intentional responses to eliminate individuals, groups, or cultural practices. These often underlie genocidal, racial-ethnic, and
Straight away, the reason you should not come to the Humanitarian Health Conference (HHC) is because it may profoundly disrupt your life. Consider these witnesses: Jimmy Frye RN met leaders of TEAM at the 2015 HHC, who cast a vision for medical service in a profoundly isolated Asian nation. Frye made a visit,
Let’s pause to remember the remarkable life of Billy Graham, who on February 21st changed his address. As a young man growing up in the 1970s, his influence was striking. Even my precious Greek-Orthodox, rather spiritually disinterested, father would watch Graham speak. My closest personal encounter with Billy Graham occurred at the 1981 InterVarsity
What a profound difference fifteen years has made. I’m not referring to development of a new mobile app, but rather to the mobility we are witnessing in the causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost. In the year 2000, in the world’s lowest income nations the leading threat were these: Then in the early
It’s a timeless position, one that Ebenezer Scrooge advanced way back in 1843: “If he (Tiny Tim) be likely to die, he had better do it,” said Scrooge, “and decrease the surplus population.” More recently, skeptics of efforts to improve worldwide health have similarly argued that with less death around the globe, populations would