The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Office of Global Health (OGH) invites you to attend an ongoing lecture series on issues related to global health and building healthy communities.
FREE lunch will be provided to the first 50 attendees!
October’s lecture topic: Meeting Challenges in Promoting Mental Health of Traumatized Adolescents Living With HIV in Eswatini
• Speaker: Panel Presentation
• Date: Wednesday, October 3
• Time: 12:00 noon CT
• Location: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (3601 4th ST) Academic Classroom Building room 110
This panel presentation will cover the How’s, What’s and Why’s of the collaboration with BIPAI in Eswatini
(formerly known as Swaziland) and challenges faced in implementing an evidence-based strategy for capacity
building in addressing mental health issues in a low resource country. The next steps of this initiative and opportunities
for other areas of capacity building for improving health in Eswatini will be addressed.
Panelists include: Susan Calloway, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, Professor & Program Director PMHNP
program SON; Dr. Michael Gomez, Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, Center for Superheroes; Emily
Merrill, PhD, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Professor, Associate Dean, Nurse Practitioner Studies SON; Stacy Hobbs, RN,
BSN, PMHNP student; & Lindsay Urban, RN, BSN, PMHNP student.
For more information about Baylor's pediatric AIDS initiative in Eswatini, please visit their website at bipai.org/Swaziland.
This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is necessary. Meals will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
For more information about the lecture series, please visit the Office of Global Health website at www.ttuhsc.edu/global-health, email globalhealth@ttuhsc, or call 806-743-2901.
