The Global Health Training Program is part of the Peeke School of Christian Mission at King College in Bristol Tennessee. This program offers a semi-annual workshop on community health and development. It likewise has available a DVD-based distance learning course for physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals on how to care for the whole person - combining care for body, mind, soul, spirit, and relationships all in one clinical setting.

 

For further information about the Peeke School and these workshops, visit the website: www.peeke.king.edu 

 

The director of the Global Health Training Program is Dan Fountain. He is a physician and spent 35 years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo developing a small rural mission hospital at Vanga into a comprehensive African sustainable Christian health service consisting of a 400 bed teaching hospital, a training program for nurse practitioners, a rural health zone of 55 health centers to make primary health care services accessible to the entire surrounding population of 250,000 people, community health initiatives in environmental sanitation and nutritional improvements, a three-year family medicine residency, and a biblically-based spiritual care service and training program. 

 

Since 1996, Dr. Fountain travels extensively to teach integrated health care especially to those preparing for, or already involved in health services to poor people. Books he has written are listened under resources.

 

For further information about King College, go to:  www.king.edu