Talk to Explore Global Education, Health
Dr. Jessica Evert, executive director of Child Family Health International (CFHI), examines the complexities of achieving global health equity in a lecture, “Global Health: Tensions, Trends, and Truths” on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. in Winter Hall’s Darling Foundation Lecture Hall (Room 210). The Office of Global Education Lecture, co-sponsored by the Westmont department of kinesiology, is free and open to the public.
“Global health offers the opportunity for everyone, regardless of discipline or pursuit, to unify toward human and planetary wellness,” Evert says. “Momentum has never been greater.”
Evert, a graduate of Emory University, earned an M.D. at Ohio State University College of Medicine. She serves on the faculty in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
“She is a longtime advocate for health-related international education quality and ethical standards,” says Cynthia Toms, Westmont director of global education and CFHI board member.
Evert focuses her research and advocacy toward the ethics of global educational engagement, competency-based international education, health disparities, asset-based programmatics and reflection. She has authored and edited multiple chapters, articles and books in global health with a focus on education, ethics and asset-based engagement. She co-authored “Developing Global Health Programming: A Guidebook for Medical and Professional Schools” and “Global Health Education: A Guidebook,” both of which are in their second editions.
She helped develop the Standards for Health-Related Undergraduate Programs for the Forum on Education Abroad, a non-profit recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization for the field of education abroad.
Evert won the Global Health Education Consortium’s prestigious Christopher Krogh Award for her dedication to underserved populations at home and abroad.
CFHI is a grassroots non-governmental organization that provides transformative global health education experiences and community empowerment in underserved communities around the world. Its programs broaden students’ perspectives about global health — as well as a variety of community health initiatives and projects — in developing countries, including Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Argentina, Mexico, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana and the Philippines.