1. Missiological Strategies
   • church planting & growth
     • using health related ministries (HRM’s) for church planting in restricted access locations
     • using HRM’s for church planting where a strong national church already exists
     • how can HRMs be used to strengthen the local church?
   • unreached peoples
   • Receiver/Host discipleship
   • Goer/Participant discipleship
   • avoiding Messiah Complex and ethnocentrism
   • Evangelism though curative care delivery (bridge-building, love, cultural adaptation)
2. Strategic Alliances/Networking and Partnership issues
   • Coordination/Collaboration with host country health systems
     • public health/PHC
     • government facilities – community health centers, clinics, hospitals
     • host church health workers
     • private health providers –
   • Coordination/Collaboration with secular NGO/relief and development organizations
   • Coordination/Collaboration with other Christian NGO/church/relief and development groups
   • avoiding unhealthy dependency while developing a healthy interdependency
3. Legal aspects
   • permission – curative care with legal permission from host country (Ministry of Health and ?other licensing boards?)
   • liability
   • bribes
   • medication handling
   • patients rights-informed consent
   • licensure — medical and nursing
4. Curative care issues
   • Surgical issues
     • informed consent
     • scope of practice –
     • skill transfer
   • Medication use
     • inordinate focus
     • expiration
     • limitations – using meds on STHRM that are unavailable in the host country
     • risks & benefits
     • conformity with WHO recommendations
   • Language proficiency and translation for medical/health information.
   • Appropriate technology
5. Education
   • Host/Receiver health workers
   • Sent/Goer participants – short-term workers may have as much to learn as hosts
   • Integrating with host country teaching institutions
   • Providing CME type credits in rural settings
6. Primary Health Care initiatives
   • cooperation with UN MDG’s
   • how do we define PHC?
   • how do you actually do PHC as defined by the Alma Ata declaration – with the people and not just for them.
   • who should do PHC? Are physicians the best to fill this role? Nurses?
   • health promoters
   • Mid-level providers — roles and scope of practice
7. Research efforts
   • spiritual & physical effectiveness of interventions
   • effects of STHRM’s (short term health related missions)
   • how to most effectively work in collaboration/coordination with other HR initiatives.
   • Identifying and measuring outcomes (using metrics)
   • Ethical standards
   • Case studies
8. Health in Transformational Development
9. Strengthening Health Systems
   • role for being advocates for the poor
   • role in promoting just healthcare systems
   • facilities administration/management
   • shouldering the cost-issues of sustainability

Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Mental Health
Reconciliation
Nutrition
Clean Water
The Environment