Can Novels Save Lives? When Health, Development and Stories Collide
Coney Island freak shows, Belle Époque Egypt and Maori tattoo parlors in Victorian Sydney were all featured in my thesis project at Pratt Institute for my undergraduate writing degree. As a writer living in Brooklyn, I thought I’d write the Great German-American novel before I graduated. But writing a terrible novel at age 21 didn’t […]
What’s Love (and Health) Got To Do With It?
In a report releases in August this year, UNICEF shook up much of the global health community by estimating that by 2050, 40% of the children under five in the world will be African. The total population of the African continent, currently around 1.1 billion, is projected to increase to 4.2 billion by 2100. Those […]
No Problem Exists in a Vacuum
A colleague made a fascinating comment during a meeting the other day. Deep in my post-Taco Thursday food coma, I did not process his words until long after. “Under staffing is protective in one sense: [they] do not have the resources to pay everyone if the facility was fully staffed.” This blew me away (once […]
Designing Distance Learning for the Resource-Limited Setting
Earlier in the year, some of my colleagues and I began taking an online course on statistical analysis and epidemiology from edX. edX is an online learning platform that provides a plethora of courses from universities throughout the world on various topics, ranging from public health to computer science. I started the course, eager to […]
On working behind the scenes
Working for global health equity isn’t always as glamorous as going out in the field, working directly in the community. Sometimes the most effective work you can do for the global health equity movement is behind the scenes…