Deborah Dortzbach

Deborah Dortzbach
Senior Advisor on the Program Resource Team in World Relief in Baltimore, MD

Deborah Dortzbach is a nurse specialist in international public health and child health with extensive experience in community-based health assessment, program design, implementation, training, advocacy, and media and material development. She is a graduate of Columbia University (BSN) and Emory University (MN, MPH). She presently holds the position of Senior Advisor on the Program Resource Team in World Relief in Baltimore, MD where she pioneered the couple and family strengthening program known as Families for Life. She also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Community Development at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Together with her husband she has been with Mission to the World of the Presbyterian Church in America since 1980. She has more than twenty years of experience in HIV/AIDS program development and leadership in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean and resided 24 years in Kenya and one year in Eritrea. In addition to numerous papers and presentations she co-authored four books, The AIDS Crisis: What We Can Do ( Inter arsity Press), The Mother Child Project (Zondervan), Integrating Faith and Healthcare: Shalom and the Mission Health Movement (William Carey Library), and Kidnapped, (Harper and Rowe, chronicling her experiences as an early missionary in 1974).

Debbie lives in Baltimore. Maryland where she is deeply nurtured through her family and church, Faith Christian Fellowship. In addition to her husband, Karl, she has three children and ten grandchildren.

Presentations at Calvin University

Deborah Dortzbach at FIDC
Part of the: Faith and International Development
Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:30:00 PM
Calvin College Chapel