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Integrative Approaches to Global Community Health (IAGCH)

Conference Chairs
Dr Dayaprasad Kulkarni

Founder and Director, AarogyaSeva

Dr Sean Hesler

Executive Director, Naturopaths Without Borders

Organizing Secretary
Melissa Lopez

Conference Date: Dec 4th

7 am -6:00 pm PST

Conference Overview

Vision

IAGCH’s vision is to inspire a group of multidisciplinary professionals & students to share their best practices in integrative health with other professions so they can incorporate them to benefit the larger global and community health sectors. IAGCH will be a cornerstone for advancing integrative health for those who most need it and can least access it.

IAGCH 2022 Trailer

Objectives

To bring together a groups of motivated, committed and inspiring Integrative medicine practitioners who can pioneer the use of this interdisciplinary practice in the field of community health.

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Stakeholders

The stakeholders for this conference are everyone involved in global and community health, including but not limited to students, multidisciplinary health professionals, biomedical engineers, and public health advocates.

Expected Outcomes

By the conclusion of the conference, we expect that attendees will have engaged in a session outside of their field and generated ideas for how that information can expand their own field’s toolkit. In addition, we foresee the formation of a community of like-minded, diverse, students and professionals who will move forward on collaborating on projects for their field. Ideally, IAGCH will be a self-funded conference. The accumulation of enough sponsorships and donations will be able to help further the missions of both NWB and Aarogya Seva.

Impact

IAGCH strives to inspire new projects that advance access to integrative health for underserved communities. The intention is to stimulate students and multidisciplinary professionals to take an active role in helping communities, including boosting volunteer participation. The information learned at the IAGCH conference will influence established outreach programs to upgrade their existing projects and services by incorporating best practices from other fields in order to more effectively serve communities.

Sustainability

In order to sustain IAGCH’s vision, we aim to hold an annual conference so students and multidisciplinary professionals can continue to grow their field’s toolkit within communities. One way to build momentum towards the next conference is to have attendees write a letter to themselves about what they learned and how they plan to apply that information in their field. At the following conference, we can email/mail these letters back out to the attendees so they can analyze their growth and create a new movement for change. In addition, we would like to build an online IAGCH community portal (possibly via a social media group) where participants can continue to network and fuel the growth of each other's outreach programs.

Leadership Roles