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MH Conversations and Connections Series – Lunchtime Seminar
Title: Bridging Ethics, Technology, and Community: A Model for Equitable Global Health Care
Co-organisers:
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, HKUMed
School of Public Health, HKUMEd
Date: 9 February 2026 (Monday)
Time: 12:45 – 2:00 pm HKT
Venue: 3SR-SR3 = Seminar Room 3 (Room 402), 4/F, HKUMed Academic Building, 3 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
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Abstract:
Despite remarkable advances in medicine and digital health, global health initiatives continue to face challenges of fragmentation, short-term engagement, and ethical misalignment with the communities they aim to serve. This talk presents a community-anchored model of equitable global health care that intentionally integrates medical ethics, public health frameworks, and technology-enabled care.
Drawing on over a decade of work in underserved communities in the Philippines—and informed by academic leadership and global health education—the presentation illustrates how mobile medical clinics, telemedicine, community education, and longitudinal partnerships can move global health beyond episodic missions toward sustainable, trust-based systems of care. Ethical considerations surrounding access, power, cultural humility, and digital responsibility are explored alongside practical implementation strategies.
The session invites dialogue across medicine, ethics and humanities, and public health, encouraging future health leaders to reflect on how innovation can remain human-centered, morally accountable, and responsive to widening global health inequities.
Speaker:
Prof Julieta Gabiola
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Founder and CEO of ABC’s for Global Health
Respondent:
Dr Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw
Lecturer
School of Public Health, HKUMed
Moderators:
Prof Julie Chen
Director, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, SClinMed, HKUMed
Ms Lynette Orr
MBBS Student
Speaker Bio:
Prof Julieta Gabiola
Dr Julieta Gabiola (known as Doc Jette in the Philippines) is a physician, clinical educator, and global health leader dedicated to advancing equitable, community-centered health care. She is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, where she has long served as a clinical educator and mentor committed to primary care, population health, and health equity.
Dr Gabiola was among the 16 inaugural faculty for Educators for CARE (compassion, advocacy, responsibility and empathy) for the Stanford School of Medicine where she taught the Foundation of Medicine and Clinical Reasoning. These faculty were selected from the very best at the Stanford School of Medicine to exemplify empathy, compassion, teaching and leadership.
She is the country director for the Philippines under the Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) helping to shape CARE’s early global partnerships, educational programs, and community-based research initiatives. Her work has focused on building ethically grounded, longitudinal collaborations between academic institutions and underserved communities in Asia.
In addition to her educational and global health leadership, Dr Gabiola has held key institutional roles at Stanford, including Immediate Past Chair of the Faculty Senate at the Stanford School of Medicine, where she contributed to faculty governance, academic policy, and physician leadership during a period of significant change. She is also a Faculty Fellow of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, engaging in interdisciplinary efforts that link innovation, ethics, and real-world impact.
She was the Chief of Stanford Medical Group, an internal medicine practice at Stanford.
She is the Founder and CEO of ABCs for Global Health, a nonprofit organization delivering sustainable health care in underserved communities through mobile clinics, telemedicine, community education, and workforce training. Across her roles, Dr Gabiola’s work bridges ethics, public health, clinical medicine, and technology, with a consistent emphasis on dignity, accountability, and compassionate leadership.
Welcome to join us!
Enquiry: Please contact Mr Edison Cheng (mehu@hku.hk).