RESEARCH & PRACTICE
2021 Scholarship Showcase
Welcome!
Welcome to the 2021 Scholarship Showcase of the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Below you'll find a selected sample of research and practice projects conducted by faculty and students in the school of public health over the past three years. Although some of these projects have been published and/or presented, many of them are ongoing. Please scroll down this page to view all of our projects.
Our Mission
We create learning experiences for each generation. We translate scientific discovery into action, improve health, spread hope and promote wholeness from our neighborhood to yours.
Our Vision
Healthy people living in resilient communities supported by equitable systems of health.
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Searched and Found: A Wastewater Based Epidemiology program at Loma Linda University as a surveillance method for the COVID-19 pandemic
Daily Macadamia Nut Intake and Its Effect on Macronutrient Intake and Displacement
Pilot Feasibility Study of Incorporating Whole Person Care Health Coaching into an Employee Wellness Program
LLUMC Hospital Food Waste Study
Blue Region Older Adults Mitigate ACEs and Other Chronic Stress Exposures
Stepping Out and Becoming a Bridge For Community Wholeness
Community Collaboration for Water Access
Elevated C -Reactive Protein Is Associated with Obesity When Sleep Quality Is Low
Anticipating a Sabbath as a Day of Rest Predicts Higher Quality Sleep
The LLU Center for Global Surgery
Integrating Service Learning and Interprofessional Work: A Public Health Model
The LLU Center for Global Surgery
Walter Johnson, MD, MBA, MPH Professor Surgery, Neurosurgery, Global Health Ryan Hayton, MD Associate Professor, Surgery
Issues
Surgical conditions constitute one third of the global burden of disease, yet 5 billion individuals lack access to safe, timely and affordable surgical care. Only 6% of surgeries are performed on the poorest one third of the world’s population; total annual deaths due to surgical conditions are 5-6 times those resulting from HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined. Understanding these critical issues requires surgical care being viewed through lenses of both medicine and public health.
LLU’s unique qualities for this Center:
- Historic tradition of global missions;
- Long association with Pan-African Association of Christian Surgeons (PAACS);
- Global surgery program & fellowship within Department of Surgery;
- Partnerships between LLU Schools of Medicine, Public Health, others;
- Large network of global LLU partners;
- Strong spiritual emphasis on wholeness that is distinctive and impactful;
- Commitment to LLU value pillars: Compassion, Justice, Humility, Excellence, Integrity, Teamwork, Wholeness.
Description
- Identify access barriers to surgical care through innovation, research, policy development, advocacy;
- Strengthen entire health systems through surgical services capacity building;
- Train global surgeons in competent, ethical, compassionate care within low-resource environments;
- Establish collaborative, mutual-value partnerships with LMICs, including SDA and PAACS mission hospitals.
The Center will achieve these goals through education, health-related service, and research.
Lessons Learned
Approved as an official LLU Center in January 2021, this Center will serve as a campus-wide hub, integrating all interested in global health and surgical services.
Next Steps
- Create a thriving environment for education in global surgical issues;
- Produce impactful research;
- Develop surgical care health policy at local, national levels;
- Establish sustainable global partnerships;
- Procure funding.
Contact: Wjohnson@llu.edu