Skip to main content
Intellect

BYU to sponsor Global Family Health Conference March 18

The Brigham Young University Department of Health Science and College of Nursing will present the Global Family Health Conference Friday, March 18, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the BYU Conference Center.

Registration online at ce.byu.edu/cw/gfh is $95 for professionals, $35 for students and $125 for exhibitors. Free parking is available at the Conference Center, located northeast of the Marriott Center.

The one-day symposium focuses on current solutions and best health practices to use with families and will feature national experts in global health issues and brings together the university community, medical and health sectors, and government and nongovernment agencies in an event that brings to the forefront major health needs and issues that compromise the health, future, and life of mothers and children worldwide.

The plenary speakers will include W. Henry Mosley, emeritus professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Henry B. Perry, senior associate in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University. Later in the conference, there will be break-out sessions presented by local professionals on various topics of family health.

For registration information and a full schedule of events, visit ce.byu.edu/cw/gfh or contact BYU Conferences and Workshops at (801) 422-3559 or e-mail conferences@byu.edu.

Writer: Mel Gardner

Related Articles

data-content-type="article"

Wildfires in residential areas are on the rise; why hydrants and the water system behind them were never meant to stop those fires

July 01, 2025
BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has particular expertise in the planning, design, construction and operation of public water systems. That expertise has been increasingly important (and regularly sought out) in the wake of apocalyptic wildfires that have taxed those public water systems.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= promoTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= promoTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

Meet the BYU math student helping make wildfire predictions faster and smarter

June 25, 2025
Using machine learning and math, a BYU student improved a key tool firefighters rely on during wildfire season
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= promoTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= promoTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

Geology meets history: BYU professor studies WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches

June 05, 2025
Eighty years after D-Day, BYU geologists uncover lingering WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches to study how history still shapes the coastline today.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= promoTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= promoTextAlignment=
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= promoTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText=