Promoting Health, Wholeness, and Community Partnership

Broaden your clinical perspective and experience the beauty of China firsthand. Join an interdisciplinary team of students traveling to Loma Linda University Health’s (LLUH) global campus in Hangzhou. You will engage in hands-on service activities and bring compassion and collaboration to LLUH's partner hospitals and universities across Hangzhou. You will take part in a milestone academic celebration, honoring Hangzhou City University students as they graduate with certificates in dental hygiene and respiratory therapy through LLUH's joint International Institute for Health Sciences. Beyond clinical outreach, you will learn about the roots of holistic healing while engaging with the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospital and museum.  A meaningful Sabbath together will offer time to connect and worship with the local church community. You also will have time to explore Hangzhou’s iconic West Lake while discovering a city where tradition and heritage meets cutting-edge technology and innovation. The journey closes in Beijing—China’s political and cultural capital—renowned for its imperial landmarks, ancient architecture, and the Great Wall.

Through this international mission service experience, LLU students and faculty will have the opportunity to serve alongside local partners, gain valuable cross-cultural experience, and apply their knowledge in a global health setting. Guided by Loma Linda University’s commitment to service and whole-person care, the team will seek to foster meaningful relationships.

• Please note that all trip dates are tentative and subject to change until airfare has been secured and confirmed. Participants should make personal travel arrangements only after receiving official confirmation of the trip dates from LLU SIMS.
  
• Non US Passport holders please email Obed Carrera at ocarrera@llu.edu before registering for this trip.
• Passports must have at least twelve months validity and at least two blank pages.
• If trip registration is full, or if you are not a current LLU Student and want to be added to the trip wait list, please click here
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