Access to care through self-care
Spring has come and I couldn’t be happier! This winter I was sick more times than I have been during the last three years. Where I would have been down briefly once a year during the ‘flu-season’, I was pretty much down with something for the entire three to four months of winter. Coming from […]
The Journey to Becoming a Great Leader
One of my great achievements has been joining a global movement which is fighting for health equity at Global Health Corps (GHC). I have been inspired by the GHC approach of producing great leaders that are committed to social justice, that collaborate, those that inspire and mobilize others, those that are innovative, result oriented and […]
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 […]
Health and Technology, 1 app at a time.
7 weeks before I was scheduled to leave my former job and embark on my Global Health Corp Fellowship, I undertook a seemingly impossible task: to have students at my Health Sciences University, with no prior programming and/or systems design experience, design a mobile app. But deep inside me, I knew we would never pull […]