Global Health Conference Midwest

Introducing our Director of Photography, Stone! (Huge thanks to him for taking our pictures!)

Introducing our Community Fair team: Olivia, Arij, and Eva!

Introducing our Speaker Search team: Alexandra, Jury, Taylor, and Daniel!

Introducing the Media & Marketing Team: Taryn, Alex, Kaitlin, and Jenna!

Introducing our Public Relations team: Mustafa, Marian, and Isabella!

Introducing our Research Symposium team: Eric, Anisha, and Maggie!

Introducing your GPNAHS Student Director, Alex, and GPNAHS Student Coordinators, Avery and Bianca!

Meet your GHCM 2025 Coordinating Committee directors: Lauren (Director of Logistics), April, and Maddy (Directors of Programming)!

Lauren is a second-year medical student at Creighton University. Originally from Joplin, Missouri, Lauren received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Creighton too. She is interested in continuing conversations, service, and advocacy related to health inequities and health justice. Lauren had a wonderful experience last year as one of GHCM’s Community Fair Coordinators, and she is looking forward to being this year’s Director of Logistics.

April is a third-year scholar in the Arrupe Global Scholars & Partnership MD/MPH Program at Creighton University School of Medicine. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, pursued her undergraduate degree at Colorado State University, and completed her Masters Degree in Medical Science at Creighton University in 2022. April loved being part of the GHCM last year and is grateful to have the opportunity to serve as a director for this year’s conference.

Maddy Deanne is a third year student in the Arrupe Global Scholars & Partnerships MD/MPH program at Creighton University. She is passionate about learning about health disparities and finding potential solutions through collaboration between countries and systems. She is one of the 2025 GHCM directors and is enthusiastic about seeing the innovation in global health that her peers will share at the conference this year.

Meet the team!! Introducing your wonderful team that has made this conference possible, the GHCM 2025 Coordinating Committee!

Remember to register for the conference if you haven’t already!! The link is in our bio.

Welcome our GPNAHS Keynote speaker, Dr. Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD! She will be presenting “Unity of Community - Creating Transformational Healthcare Opportunities to Advance Tribal Health.”

Dr. Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker, thought leader and CEO in several healthcare areas including (tribal, rural, elder, veteran populations) research, leadership, innovation (public health/population health, precision medicine) and bio-tech/wellness initiatives. She serves on the national healthcare congress and advocates for clinicians, underserved communities, access and eliminating healthcare access barriers and inequities. She has served as a hospital/health system and CEO/ Market President of various healthcare industries across the nation. She is a mentor, coach and leader in DEI, Social Determinants of Health for healthcare systems and universities and serves via appointment by the NE Governor, to the WHAC - Women’s Health Advisory Council (women/children/healthcare/housing/access) and The Nursing Home Administration, P***c Health and NE DHHS SHIP - State Health Improvement Plan.

Welcome our third Keynote speaker, Dr. Megan Weil Latshaw! She will be presenting “Planetary Health: The Urgency of Now.”

Megan Weil Latshaw, PhD is the Director of the Master’s Degree Programs in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health as co-Director for Education and on the Steering Committee Member for the Environmental Challenges focus area of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. Recently, Dr. Latshaw co-lead JHU’s Sustainability Plan Steering Committee. Her work focuses on designing healthy communities, connecting environmental health research with the real world, and improving environmental health surveillance (all through a justice and equity lens).

Welcome our second Keynote speaker, Dr. Margot Kushel! She will be presenting “Homelessness: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions.”

Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, and Division Chief of the Division of Health Equity and Society and Director of the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. She is a practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Kushel’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating the effects of homelessness on health. She is the Principal Investigator of the California State Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH) and of multiple NIH studies, including the HOPE HOME Study, a longitudinal cohort study of homelessness in older adults Homelessness and a study of advance care planning in permanent supportive housing. Dr. Kushel serves on the board of Housing California and the National Homelessness Law Center and the Steinberg Institute. She is a member of the California Interagency Council on Homelessness. She speaks at a local, state, and national level about issues of homelessness, and frequently provides testimony to legislative bodies. She received her AB from Harvard College, her MD from Yale and completed residency, chief residency, and fellowship in internal medicine at UCSF.