The Global Challenges week, from Sept. 26-30, brings together Ohio University students, faculty, staff, and community members who share an academic interest in the major global challenges of today and tomorrow. This week-long event focuses on global hunger, climate change, health crises, and human disasters which can only be addressed through the pooling and sharing of knowledge across disciplines.
Most of the events can be viewed live or following the event on A&S TV.
- Wednesday, Sept. 28 – Gillian Ice (Social Medicine) on “Current Issues in Global Health,” 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Alden 319
Abstract: As the world become increasingly interconnected, patterns of disease become more similar across countries and regions. While viruses such as Zika, Ebola, yellow fever and MERS remind us that diseases easily cross borders, the public is less aware of the impact of globalization on trends in chronic disease. As populations become more sedentary, eat more processed foods and age, the world is becoming heavier and more susceptible to chronic disease. Often seen as unique to High Income Countries, the obesity and chronic disease epidemics are particularly challenging Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) which also struggle to address undernutrition and high infectious disease burden. This presentation will discuss current issues in global health with a focus on dual burden of disease in LMIC.
Dr. Gillian Ice
Biography: Ice, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a professor in the Department of Social Medicine, and African Studies at Ohio University. She serves as the Director of Global Health for College of Health Sciences and Professions and the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. In addition, she is an adjunct professor in the Social and Public Health and Anthropology Department at Ohio State University. Prior to her position at Ohio University, she was a National Institute on Aging Fellow at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a specialization in aging and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology. Her research explores stress and aging with a focus on grandparents caring for orphaned children in Kenya (funded by the National Science Foundation). She previously ran a study abroad program in Kenya and now takes health professions students to Botswana. She teaches in a number of areas including research methods and evidence based medicine, epidemiology, geriatrics, cultural competence and global health. Ice is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of American, the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Human Biology Association and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and American Journal of Human Biology. She edited (with Gary James), “Measuring Stress in Humans: A Practical Guide for the Field” published by Cambridge University Press. She authored (with Darna Durfour and Nancy Stevens) “Disasters in Field Research” published by Rowman and Littlefield. Ice is currently working the Ministry of Health in Botswana on several health systems strengthening efforts.
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