Agenda

2017 Global Summit

The Future Role of U.S. Faith Based Organizations in International Health

 
Day 1 – Sept. 27, 2017
1:00 p.m. Opening & Reflection
Bruce Compton
Senior Director, International Outreach
CHA
1:15 p.m. Introductions

1:45 p.m. The Call of Our Heritage
Sr. Kelly Connors, pm, JCD, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Sponsor Services
CHA


What should define the works of Catholic health care in its international activities?
This session will be a reflection on the heritage of Catholic health care in the U.S. and how that journey can influence our current and future activities. The session will highlight:
  • Our founding – how our ministry began in the U.S. and why how it took shape matters as we discern our activities today and for tomorrow
  • The cultural competence of our foundresses and founders – what from our heritage is calling forth revisiting our approach to partnership as we work to improve access to care for our global brothers and sisters
2:00 p.m. Faith-Based Outreach Today
Annemarie Reilly, MIA
Chief of Staff to the President/CEO &
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Organizational Development
Catholic Relief Services


What is today asking of those faith-based institutions working on large scale global projects? This session will share the strategies leading the Church's international outreach organization for the U.S. – Catholic Relief Services. The session will highlight:
  • The heritage of CRS – how its founding speaks to its role today in larger-scale programs
  • The current climate for CRS as a faith-based non-governmental organization fulfilling the mission through the lens of having a new administration in place
  • Potential projects where Catholic health care organizations can partner to help CRS fulfill its mission along with considerations for how our work dovetails in the countries in which we serve, including information about health care groups traveling to countries and any pre or post trip communications with CRS country directors
2:30 p.m. Studying our Standards
Ruth McDermott-Levy, Ph.D., MPH, RN
Associate Professor & Director, Center for Global & Public Health

Villanova University

What is yesterday telling our tomorrow when it comes to utilizing research and experience to consider needed changes that are expressions of our Catholic social teaching and tradition, as well as the Guiding Principles for Conducting International Health Activities?
2:45 p.m. Putting it in Perspective

What did you and your neighbors hear, and what questions do you have? This time for Table discussions will allow table groups to talk about what they've heard thus far – what they agree with, what they question and why it matters to them individually and for the collective of those doing international work. Each table will also be asked for questions they want to ask those who have presented.
3:00 p.m. Networking Break
3:30 p.m. Q & A with Presenters – Follow-up Questions and a Deeper Dive
Sr. Kelly Connors, pm, JCD, Ph.D.
Annemarie Reilly, MIA
Ruth McDermott-Levy, Ph.D., MPH, RN
4:00 p.m. Everything in Its Time – Insights from the Former Head of USAID
Andrew S. Natsios, MPA
Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs & Executive Professor
George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service Texas A&M University

How can one place this point in time and plan for future projects using not commonly understood insights from past U.S. international development activities? This session will offer insights and personal perspectives on the current climate for the U.S.'s international aid programming as offered by the former head of the USAID. The session will provide:
  • Insight into what was happening publicly and even behind closed doors during Mr. Natsios' career at USAID that can offer insights into today's closed-door decision making
  • Thoughts on any philosophical shifts as well as actual activity and funding shifts that have taken place over his career and the various administrations it covered
  • The perspective having a career in this field provides on today's national and geo-political reality
4:30 p.m. Putting it in Perspective

What did you and your neighbors hear, and what questions do you have?
4:45 p.m. Networking Break
5:00 p.m. Q & A – Follow-up Questions and a Deeper Dive
Andrew S. Natsios, MPA
5:30 p.m.
Networking Reception 
 
Day 2 – Sept. 28, 2017
7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:15 a.m. Program Opening & Reflection
8:30 a.m. Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Global Development Alliances
Timothy Lavelle
Acting Director of USAID's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
U.S. Agency for International Development

Pamela Wyville, MPH
Foreign Service Officer
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
U.S. Agency for International Development

What are Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Global Development Alliances (GDAs) and are they potential opportunities for Catholic Health Care? This session will provide an overview of PPPs and GDAs and highlight current ones. The session will highlight:
  • How GDAs have been USAID's premier model for public-private partnerships, helping to improve the social and economic conditions in developing countries and deepen USAID's development impact
  • Requirements – and a perspective on how that could be challenging as a ministry made up of many individual organizations
  • Insights on benefits and challenges of GDAs and PPPs
9:30 a.m. Timing and Disaster Response
Doug Fountain 
Vice President, Strategy & Impact
Medical Teams International

What are considerations for being prepared to respond to a disaster in a country other than our own? This session will share leading thoughts on how best to partner to provide disaster response in low- and middle-income countries. The session will cover:
  • Best practices partnering to provide disaster response
  • Our call as faith-based ministries to end double standards
  • Current projects and information from leaders in this field
10:00 a.m. Networking Break
10:30 a.m. Haiti Focused – Existing PPPs and Future Considerations for Faith-Based Organizations
Conor Shapiro, MPH
Alix Cantave, Ph.D.
David Barash, MD (Invited)


What can we learn from existing PPPs in Haiti and how faith-based PPPs could impact the future of the nation's health and wellness? 

This session will provide a glimpse into several organizations existing efforts in Haiti as a means of opening dialogue on our role in this country's health care access. The session will highlight:
  • Current Public Private Partnership USAID, St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, St Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, W.K. Kellogg Foundation and GE Foundation
  • The large picture of faith-based practices in Haiti
  • Potential points of connection CHA members can have in country/regions of Haiti
11:00 a.m. Regional Leaders' Response

If one was to sit outside of the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, how many groups would be seen entering or exiting the country related to short-term medical missions, and with that in mind, is all of this activity improving access opportunities and the health and wellness of Haiti's women, men and children.
In this session, hear insights from those who receive U.S. medical volunteers and educators while serving in leadership of critical medical access points for the poorest and most vulnerable Haitians.

Dianne Jean-François, MD, MPH
Country Director, Haiti and Dominican Republic
Catholic Medical Mission Board

Msgr. Patrick Aris
Coordinator of the Directors General
St. Francois de Sales Hospital
11:15 a.m. Q & A – Follow-up Questions and a Deeper Dive (title change and no bullets)

 

  • Alix Cantave, Ph.D.
  • Doug Fountain
  • Timothy Lavelle
  • Conor Shapiro, MPH
  • Pamela Wyville, MPH
Noon Networking Lunch
For all summit attendees and those attending the country-specific meeting
1:00 p.m. Country Specific Networking Meeting – Haiti
This open meeting is for those who lead or participate in health programs and mission trips to Haiti. The meeting is a venue for sharing resources, contacts and information related to health education, networking with government, logistics, networking with other non-governmental organizations, and more.
3:30 p.m. Adjournment

Please note: schedule and speakers subject to change