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Introductions and Announcements
Patricia Singer, PhD
Professor of Biology, Simpson College; President, HGHC

Host Institution Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Christa Olson, PhD
Vice Provost for International Programs, Drake University

Keynote Address: The Other Side of the Coin: Perspectives from a Global Experiential Learning Site
Fatima Suleman, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD
Associate Professor, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa); Global Practitioner-in-Residence, Drake University

Concurrent Panels: Session One

• Panel 1: Service Learning from the Community Partner Perspective
  Presenters: Ryan Crane, Prior Development Director, Primary Health Care/ The Project of PHC and Carly Ross, Director, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Des Moines Field Office
  This panel session will focus on the community partner perspective in working with service-learning students and other volunteers.  Topics will include the needs of the community partners, the challenges of working with students and volunteers and the benefits of a positive working relationship between community partners and the organizations and individuals that contribute via service learning and/or volunteerism.  
• Panel 2: Food Insecurity, Waste, and Next Course, the Food Recovery Program at Drake
  Presenters:  Ben Simon (Food Recovery Network) and Ellen Yee (Drake University Law School)
  Ben Simon will share from his experience as the founder of Food Recovery Network in 2011 while he was a student at University of Maryland, College Park. He served as FRN's Executive Director for its first 4 years. Under Ben’s leadership, FRN became the largest student movement against hunger with chapters at over 150 colleges.  Ben is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur and won a Do Something Award on VH1. Today, Ben is still involved in FRN's certification and consulting work. He is based in Oakland, CA where he is CEO at Imperfect, America's leading consumer brand for ugly produce. Imperfect is on a mission to find a home for the 6 billion pounds per year of produce that is currently wasted because of looks.  
• Panel 3: Social Determinants of Health
  Presenters: Yogesh Shah (Associate Dean of Global Health, Des Moines University), Noreen O’Shea (Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Des Moines University), and Tom Benzoni (Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Des Moines University)
  Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are well recognized, with a robust body of literature to support them. Less appreciated is how they actually play out in the lives of people. This panel will discuss how SDOH work. Panelists will bring to bear experience in Appalachia, governance in Federally Qualified Health Centers, primary care offices and Emergency/Trauma Departments. Speakers intend to engage the audience and provoke conversation; this is not a lecture. Expected outcome will be an individual resolution to change just one thing.

Concurrent Panels: Session Two

• Panel 4:  Development in a Global Context: Summer Internships in Mysore, India
  Presenters:  Rachel Maggi, University of Iowa student and Summer 2015 intern, and Karmen Berger, PhD, Academic Coordinator/ Senior Academic Advisor for International Studies, Global Health Studies and Latin American Studies Programs at The University of Iowa
  Karmen Berger has long been involved in organizing, orienting, and selecting the University of Iowa students who spend time at the Vivekananda Institute of Indian Studies (VIIS) in Mysore, India.  The faculty and staff of both institutions have worked collaboratively for many years.  The Vivekananda Institute itself is constantly changing to address the changing and interconnected world in which they operate. 
• Panel 5: A Partnership Model for Service-Learning Based on Authentic, Holistic Community Dialogue
  Presenters: Cheri Doane, Director of Community Based Learning at Central College; Valerie Grimsley, Program Director in Merida, Mexico, for Central College; Ellen DuPre, Biology Professor and Health Professions Coordinator at Central College; and Grant Gustafson, Biology major, Chemistry minor, Pre-Med Senior at Central College
  This presentation will discuss a partnership model for service-learning that is based on authentic, holistic community dialogue. At root, the academy must rethink the many hierarchical structures, intellectual concepts, and even calendaring principles that stand in the way of real transformation for the academy and community.  The paradigm shift that follows from this new understanding of relationships re-centers our work, keeping the best interest of community partners as the motivating force and deepening community impact. This approach, a departure from traditional service-learning pedagogy, recognizes community expertise and has resulted in accelerated positive change for both college and community.  Session attendees will acquire a deeper understanding of best practices in international and intercultural service-learning.
• Panel 6: Service Learning, Voluntourism, and Ensuring that Communities Benefit as Much as Students 
  Presenters: David Campbell, Henry R. Luce Professor of Nations and the Global Environment and Chair of Environmental Studies at Grinnell College; Susan Sanning, Director of Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Grinnell College; and Cori Jakubiak, Assistant Professor of Education at Grinnell College.
  This panel will discuss the issue of "voluntourism" and how to prepare students for service learning opportunities that will not only provide them with invaluable experience, but will also benefit the communities they visit over the longer term. Professor Campbell's research is in the ecology and species composition of tropical and subtropical forests in both the Paleotropics and Neotropics. In Belize he has 43 study sites, including one at Terra Nova, the world's first medicinal plant reserve, and one at El Pilar, a Late Classic ruined Maya city of forest-covered temples and pyramids, where he and his students are investigating the 1,200 year old signature of the collapsed Maya Civilization on the species composition of the Maya forest. Susan Leathem Sanning provides direct leadership for curricular and co-curricular service-learning initiatives, collaborative community service partnerships, and local civic engagement activities. She also supervises CLS staff members who advise students about post-graduate service opportunities, manage the Grinnell Corps and the Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize, and administer various student and alumni service awards, and she has led service trips with students many times. Cori Jakubiak guides students and pre-service teachers in studying and teaching English as a Second Language. 

Concurrent Panels: Session Three

• Panel 7:  EMBARC and Educational Aspects of its Work
  Presenters: Rachel Vannice, M.Sc., Advocacy Program Manager with EMBARC and Michelle Mages, pharmacy major at Drake University
  The panel will provide a brief overview of EMBARC (Ethnic Minorities of Burma Advocacy and Resource Center) and how its work can relate to having students learn about global health through community service opportunities in refugee/migrant health.  A Drake student will share how the service opportunity related to a learning opportunity and further educational interests and career plans. 
• Panel 8: Medication Use on Medical Mission Trips
  Presenters: John Rovers (Drake University) & Fatima Suleman (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Hazel Seaba (University of Iowa.)
  This panel will cover what planners and participants need to do before, during, and after a trip that involves medication use.  Discussion will include preparation for medical mission trips; what, how much, and where do you get medications; how do you handle medications through customs, as well as any leftovers and other issues pre-departure, upon arrival, and post-trip.

Recorders Report Back Main Themes From Panel Discussions
Facilitated by Patricia Singer, PhD, HGHC President