There will be multiple tracts presented in different rooms conducted simultaneously with different topics being presented each hour. Therefore, we suggest that you make one choice, or more of areas of interest . For continuing education choose a Track and stay with it for the 14 hours. You will have opportunity to make a selection of Tracts when you click (Global Conference) link on the Registration page. Spouse must choose one or more tracts or decline.

To see the specific topics for each tract click on the coresponding tab on the side.

The first set of workshops is to be held at the University of Geneva.

July 7, 2:00 to 6:00 pm
July 8, 2:00 to 5:00 pm 

The second set of workshops is scheduled for the Adventist University,
Collonges-sous-Saléve

July 9, 4:00 to 6:00 pm
July 10, 9:30 am to 12:45 pm; 4:15 to 6:00 pm

 

Tract #1: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD)

Coordinators:
Peter Landless, Gary Hopkins

 

 

 

Team:
Jonathan Duffy, Duane McBride, Kiti Freier, Mickey Ask, Linda Ferry, Abraham Carpena, David Williams

Target Audience:

• Addiction specialists;
• Educators;
• Prevention advocates.

Objectives/Goals:

1. Update information on drugs, including alcohol;
2. Examine the political, social, and economic conditions that impact women, children, and families;
3. Explore prevention strategies that reduce risks of ATOD’s;
4. Build coalitions that work together in prevention and treatment of drug-affected and drug-prone individuals and groups.

 

Tract #2: Child Health Issues

Coordinator:
Linda Koh

 

 

 

Team: 

Target Audience:

• Children’s Ministries Directors;
• Vacation Bible School Leaders;
• Parents and grandparents;
• Youth leaders

Goals/Objectives:

1. Develop a comprehensive model for outreach with children that focuses on prevention (Celebrations model);
2. Educate children and youth on the childhood choices that lead to the chronic diseases of adults;
3. Educate children on simple strategies that reduce risks of infectious and communicable diseases;
4. Demonstrate how positive lifestyle principles can build and sustain wellness.

 

Tract #3: Dental Health Practitioners

Coordinators:
Quintes Nicola, Doyle Nick

 

 

 

Team:
Charles Goodacre, Robert Handysides, Ronald Ford

Target Audience:

• Dentists;
• Dental hygienists;
• Dental assistants;
• Dental students 

Goals/Objectives:

1. Explore programs that increase dental care to needy children;
2. Examine strategies for prevention of future dental problems;
3. Discuss practical and affordable new methods and equipment options;
4. Make participants aware of programs and services that offer continuing education.

 

Tract #4: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis

Coordinators:
Ted Karpf, Oscar Giordano

 

 

 

Team:
Paul Ratsara, Solomon Mphosa, Mike Negerie, Gilbert Wari, Blasious Ruguri, Sally Smith, Arthur Ammon, Manoj Kurian, Malik Khan, Kevin DeCock, Eugenia Giordano

Target Audience:

• HIV/AIDS workers;
• Primary care specialists;
• Clergy;
• Church leaders

Goals/Objectives:

1. Explore strategies that reduce the risks of each disease;
2. Explore ways that FBOs may strengthen family and societal values that aid prevention
3. Present effective behavioral modification models;
4. Address issues of culture, religion, and politics that perpetuate the status quo.

 

Tract #5: Healthy Families

Coordinators: Ron and Karen Flowers

 

 

 

 

Team: 

Target Audience:

• Family life counselors;
• Educators;
• Teachers;
• Parents;
• Pastors;
• Family Ministry leaders

Goals/Objectives:

1. Discuss the basic Biblical and societal values that build strong families;
2. Explore new research on strategies that address family dissonance, violence, and other contemporary issues;
3. Address children’s rights, gender equality, family planning, women’s status, sexuality, and sex education;
4. Discuss ways in which to improve family economics and health.

 

Tract #6: Leadership, Administration, and Governance

Coordinators:
Robert Sweezey, Karnik Doukmetzian

 

 

 

Team: 

Target Audience:

• Institution administrators;
• Board members;
• Conference and Union presidents

Goals/Objectives:

1. Create a systems approach to growth, maintenance, capital improvements, medical care, record retrieval, purchasing, and community involvement;
2. Present plans to develop the training, continuing education of management, staff, and medical personnel; improve fair employment practices, and patient rights;
3. Review policies and objectives that compliment WHO goals and objectives;
4. Discuss ways to improve quality of medical care, reduce mortality rates, and provide access to medical care.

 

Tract #7: Lifestyle Determinants of Health and Disease

Coordinators:
Fred Hardinge, Gary Fraser, Jonathan Duffy

 

 

 

Team:
Don Hall, Viriato Ferreira, Vicki Griffin, Per de Lange, Luka Daniel, Deans of the Schools of Public Health in Peru, Montemorelos, AUP,

Target Audience:

• Health Ministries Directors;
• Health educators;
• Community health leaders;
• Public health educators

Goals/Objectives:

1. Present the most current evidence-based information on lifestyle determinants such as exercise, rest, water, nutrition, stress, hygiene;
2. Use communication to improve the accuracy, balance, consistency, reliability, understandability of health information to extended groups of society;
3. Bring cutting-edge practical behavioral change models to participants;
4. Improve the correlation between principle and practice.

 

Tract #8: Non-Governmental Organizations

Coordinators:
Mark Webster, Reine Paulsen

 

 

 

Team:
Arthur Ammon, Dick Deurksen, Ronald Mataya

Target Audience:

• Non-governmental organization workers and prospective project managers;
• Church pastors;
• Conference and Union ADRA leaders;
• Disaster relief volunteers
• Church Community Services Directors

Goals/Objectives:

1. Explore and share employment opportunities, small business, entrepreneurial self-sustaining projects;
2. Small garden plans for supplementing food sources, technology of new water wells, family hygiene, and waste disposal;
3. Combating infectious and communicable diseases;
4. Improvements in primary education, medical care, and reduction of child mortality.

 

Tract #9: The Nursing Professional

Coordinators:
Patricia Jones, Barbara Choi, Rae Lee Cooper, Jean Yan

 

 

 

Team: 

Target Audience:

• Hospital and clinic nurses;
• Parish nurses;
• Primary care workers
• International personnel working with nutrition issues

Goals/Objectives:

1. Update participants on initiatives, practices, immunization, home care, blood safety, and safe medication practices for developing countries;
2. Continuing education initiatives for upgrading nurse education;
3. New health education and prevention strategies nurses can employ in a primary care setting;
4. Review the hygienic principles of patient care, first aid, and simple prevention principles.

 

Tract #10: Nutrition in Chronic and Infectious Diseases

Coordinators:
Stoy Proctor, Bert Connell, Lenore Hodges, Winston Craig

 

 

 

Team:
Peter Pribis, Gabrielle Calderra, Bevan Hokin, Kathy McDonald, Joan Sabaté, Nadia Ivanova

Target Audience:

• Dietitians;
• Nutritionists;
• Food service personnel;
• Non-governmental organization volunteers working with food distribution projects;
• Poverty victims

Goals/Objectives:

1. Contextualizing diets for various ethnic cuisines for developing countries;
2. Best practices for storing, selecting, purchasing, and preparing food;
3. Small garden development, selection of most productive vegetables, growing and harvesting techniques;
4. Addressing nutrition issues that impact food selections such as genetic modification, philosophical, as well as religious beliefs.

 

Tract #11: Primary Healthcare Providers

Coordinators:
Allan Handysides, Kathleen Kuntaraf

 

 

 

Team:
Fesaha Tsegaye, Elie Honoré, Roger Hadley, Abraham Acosta, Charles Marcel, Chester Kumar, Herb Giebel, Geoffrey Mbwana

Target Audience:

• Physicians;
• Physicians’ assistants;
• Traditional healers;
• Nurse practitioners

Goals/Objectives:

1. Explore models for healthcare provision, updates on immunization, maternal and child health, and the effect of lifestyle on chronic diseases;
2. Examine evidence-based alternative treatment modalities;
3. Explore the current status of sickness care and primary care in faith-based organizations;
4. Discussion and update on leading diseases and causes of morbidity and mortality.

 

Tract #12: Public Health Professionals

Coordinator:
David Dyjack

 

 

 

Team:
Per de Lang 

Target Audience:

• Public health educators;
• Environmentalists;
• Public health professionals;
• Research fellows;
• Health educators

Goals/Objectives:

1. Examine public health problems and solutions such as clean air, clean water, global warming, toxic wastes, air, water and soil pollution, occupational safety, rehabilitation issues, handicapped care;
2. Increase the proportion of schools of public and allied health in underserved areas of the globe, especially for healthcare providers;
3. Examine public health solutions in primary care venues;
4. Explore basic sanitation measures in at-risk populations (i.e. refugee camps, disasters, poor neighborhoods).

 

Tract #13: Allied Health Professionals

Coordinator:
Craig Jackson

 

 

 

Team:
Per de Lang 

Target Audience:

• Public health educators;
• Environmentalists;
• Public health professionals;
• Research fellows;
• Health educators

Goals/Objectives:

1. Examine public health problems and solutions such as clean air, clean water, global warming, toxic wastes, air, water and soil pollution, occupational safety, rehabilitation issues, handicapped care;
2. Increase the proportion of schools of public and allied health in underserved areas of the globe, especially for healthcare providers;
3. Examine public health solutions in primary care venues;
4. Explore basic sanitation measures in at-risk populations (i.e. refugee camps, disasters, poor neighborhoods).

 

Tract #14: Social, Religious, and Behavioral Change Factors

Coordinators:
Duane McBride, Kiti Freier Randall

 

 

 

Team:
Gary Hopkins, Kurt Vanderwal, Renee Drumm, Kiti Freier, David Williams

Target Audience:

• Clergy;
• Youth educators;
• Sociologists;
• Social workers;
• Health educators

Goals/Objectives:

1. Discuss evidence-based data on models for addressing delinquency, resiliency, and correctional services;
2. Examine societal determinants and disparities that impact health;
3. Present effective behavioral modification theories that have a practical potential for changing behaviors in weight management, stress control, etc.
4. Reducing at-risk sexual behaviors among vulnerable population groups.

 

Tract #15: Spiritual and Mental Health

Coordinators:
Gerald Winslow, Carla Gober, Carlos Goeber, Ted Wilson

 

 

 

Team:

Target Audience:

• Clergy;
• Rabbis;
• Imams;
• Pastors;
• Ministers of religion;
• Psychologists;
• Psychiatrists;
• Counselors

Objectives/Goals:

1. Examine the research on the correlation between faith, practice of religion, and well-being;
2. Explore the connection between lifestyle choices and mental health;
3. Discuss the related church/state issues as FBOs consider the broader ministry of assisting governments and national health organizations in meeting the health needs of communities;
4. Address the interface of science, religion, ethics, and health on current issues of cloning, stem cell research, and reproductive technology.

 

Tract #16: Women’s Health Initiatives

Coordinators:
Heather-Dawn Small, Raquel Arrais

 

 

 

Team: 

Target Audience:

• Women in leadership positions;
• Women in advocacy projects;
• Women in ministry and health work;
• Men who are concerned about women’s equality

Goals/Objectives:

 

 1. Discuss global issues affecting women and address its impact on women's mental health
2. Identify prominent mental and emotional disorders facing women and explore its connection to whole person health.
3. Discuss wholistic evidenced based interventions for women experiencing mental and emotional disorders.
4. Explore the role of faith-based organizations in promoting mental health risk reduction and treatment for women.
5. Address the role of wom en in primary mental health education with the purpose of promoting family wellness.

 

 

Tract #17 Exercise

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Tract #18: Depression

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Tract #19: How Health Expos Can Impact Communities

 

Coordinator(s): Viriato Ferreira, Charles Cleveland

 

 

 

 

Team: Valerie Dufour, Abe Carpena, Kathleen Kuntaraf, James Hartley

Target Audience:

• Health professionals
• Teachers
• Pastors
• Community members

Objectives/Goals:

1. Explore why the health expo concept is so attractive to communities, and local governments.
2. Discover how to build a coalition of volunteers to conduct the health expo program.
3. How to organize a health expo

 

Tract #20: Growth Skills

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How to Register for a Tract?

On the Website,(HealthLifestyleConf.com)
Click the Tab Registration, then Hot Link-- Global Conference and for Spouse-- Global Conference Spouse.

This page has benn updated on 28.06.2009.