An Interactive Forum to Explore The Brocher Declaration:
A Call to Maximize the Value and Minimize the Harm of Short-Term Engagements in Global Health
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About the Webinar
This interactive forum will bring together four speakers from the physical therapy profession and beyond to discuss evidence for the benefits and drawbacks of short-term engagements in global health, like service learning and medical missions trips. Through evidence-based presentations and interactive discussions, the presenters will strive to challenge those that organize, participate in, and lead these engagements.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the evidence for the benefits and drawbacks of short-term engagements in global health related to volunteerism, study, service learning, and medical mission trips.
- Describe the key principles of the Brocher Deceleration which aims to support persons and organizations to make every effort to maximize the value and minimize the harm of short-term engagements in global health.
- Reflect on your actions and the actions of the organizations/institutions that you work with to explore opportunities to minimize risk and maximize benefit for all.
About the Speakers:
Laurie Farroni, DPT, PT, PCS
Assistant Professor/Director of Education
Department of Physical Therapy – School of Health Professions
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Jeff Hartman, PT, DPT, MPH
Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Wisconsin, Madison | School of Medicine and Public Health
Judith Lasker, PhD
Professor Emerita of Sociology and Health, Medicine & Society
Department Sociology and Anthropology
Lehigh University
Shes Rivera, PT
Guatemala Director
Therapy Clinics International
Webinar Moderator
April Gamble, PT, DPT, CLT
Secretary of HPA The Catalyst’s Global Health Special Interest Group
