Global Health Update 2025

Tumaini Foundation for Global Health Presents:

Global Health Update 2025

A Symposium for Faculty, Students and Partners in Public & Global Health

The Global Health Update 2025 offers an opportunity to hear from leaders and practitioners in Public and Global Health on pressing issues in the health arena from a One Health approach, to tuberculosis, mental health, and the politics of Global Health. The speakers are at the forefront of their areas of expertise. Whether you are deeply engaged professionally or have a personal passion for public and global health, you will not want to miss this line up. Come to learn, explore and engage with others to make this planet a better place for us all.

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Event Details

Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Sponsor: Tumaini Foundation for Global Health
Host: DePauw University.
DePauw University Prindle Institute
2961 W. County Road 225 South
Greencastle, Indiana 46135

Schedule: 9am – 3pm

8-9 a.m. Registration & Networking (refreshments)
9-9:50 a.m. Dr. Chris Hall, Berry University
Catch Them Before They Know Everything: An Undergraduate Program in One Health
10-10:50 a.m. Author John Green, Partners in Health (PIH) Board Member
Tuberculosis: An Update from His New Book “Everything Is Tuberculosis”
11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. Dr. Bernice Pescosolido, Director, Irsay Institute, Indiana University
Stigma and Global Mental Health
12-1:30 p.m. Lunch & Networking
1:30-2:20 p.m. Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health The History and Politics of Global Health
2:30-3 p.m. Panel

Hotel & Travel:

A block of rooms is available at a reduced rate at:
The Inn at DePauw
765-658-1000

DePauw University in located 45 minutes west of the Indianapolis airport and is easily accessible from I-70.

Questions?

Send email to: director@tumainiglobalhealth.org

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John Green is an American author, YouTuber, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide. He has a strong interest in global health and is a trustee of Partners in Health. With his brother Hank, he has raised more than 25 million dollars to lower maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. His second nonfiction book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, is set to be released in March 2025.

Joia S. Mukherjee is an associate professor with the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2000, she has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health (PIH), an international medical non-profit founded by Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, and Jim Kim. She trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mukherjee has been involved in health care access and human rights issues since 1989, and she consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries. Her scholarly work focuses on the human rights aspect of HIV treatment and on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings. She is the author of An Introduction to Global Health Delivery, a textbook from Oxford University Press (2017).

Chris Hall is an Associate Professor at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. His interests are in infectious zoonotic diseases, epidemiology, disease ecology, and the One Health approach to population health. Dr. Hall works largely with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas Disease) and its vectors in the southeastern United States. He has also researched the natural reservoirs for Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis) in aquatic environments. Dr. Hall serves as the Director of Berry’s One Health minor program, the first such program at the undergraduate level in the world.

Bernice Pescosolido is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Founding Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research and the new Irsay Institute for Sociomedical Sciences Research. She is an elected member of both the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Trained as a medical sociologist at Yale, her research focuses on connectedness and suicide, the stigma of mental illness and addiction, international issues in health and health care, and social networked pathways to treatment. Her concerns have spanned local, national, and international questions and problems, primarily targeting mental illness. She also is currently involved as a scientific advisor/organizer for several stigma reduction efforts (e.g., National Football League, World Psychiatric Association, Bring Change to Mind).