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GMHC 2026
2026 Global Missions Health Conference
November 12-14, 2026
Louisville, KY
In person and virtual event
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In Person
Virtual
Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
2:00 pm
Plenary Session 1
3:45 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 1
From Donor Dependency to Durable Care: Mission Hospitals in a New Era of Global Health
Echo Nomsa VanderWal
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Working as a native on the Los Angeles skid row for 25 years, how it started and where my role ends.
David Campbell
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
People, Place, and Powers: the challenge of teamwork
Dr. Jennifer Myhre
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
8:00 am
Plenary Session 2
10:00 am
Breakout Sessions Block 2 (2-Hour Intensives)
The Training Years: A Student’s Guide to a Missional Life
Jessie Thomas
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
1:00 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 3
The Wounded Mission Field: How Lay-Led Trauma Healing Builds Healthy Disciples and Churches
Kristy Robison
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Five Principles for having a sustainable, long-term impact on a short-term trip
Jaime Saint
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 4
Compassion Fatigue
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Medicine, Muslims, and Missions
Luke Cutherell
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
Digital Spine, Human Soul: How Technology Can Strengthen—not Replace—Mission Care
Echo Nomsa VanderWal
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Securing Safe Medicine for Missions
Barry Ewy
Main Building ED 213 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
4:00 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 5
The Mess and the Mystery of Families in Mission
Elizabeth Perry
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Sustaining the Smallest: nutrition, respiratory care, and thermoregulation for neonates in LMICs
Jennifer Harling
Main Building ED 213 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Emergency Refugee Care
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
I Am a Surgeon: and other lies I told myself
Michael Harling
Main Building AT 106/109 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
7:00 pm
Plenary Session 3
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
8:00 am
Breakout Sessions Block 6
Supporting Global Health through Medical Education: Critical Care Example
Burton Lee
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
From Rest to Rejuvenation: Self Care for the Medical Missionary
Meredith Shuman
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
Emergency Dental Diagnosis and Management for the Non-Dentist
Jonathan Spenn
Main Building ED 156 (Preschool Chapel)
In Person
Virtual
Compassion Fatigue
Repeat
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
9:30 am
Breakout Sessions Block 7
The Healthcare Missions Crisis No One's Talking About: The Global Decline of Christian Hippocratism
Mike Chupp, MD
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Prayer as Medicine
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
Top 10 Global Health Research Articles
Philip Dooley, Jeff Leman
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Brief therapy & psycho-education for underserved countries
Lisa Steiner
Main Building ED 156 (Preschool Chapel)
In Person
Virtual
11:00 am
Plenary Session 4