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What can we learn from the painfully slow response to the 2014 Ebola Epidemic, which by the way is still ongoing in West Africa? Is there still a place for the World Health Organization and its bureaucratic delays in a world of fast moving diseases and experienced on-the-ground organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, which …
Ebola is on the world's news agenda again this week. If a novelist had thought of a way to narrate why global health matters, she could not have thought up a more fitting example. A (thankfully) slow spreading but scary, very deadly disease that gets everyone's attention; a virus that can be contained in Lagos, …
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Great conversation at the 10/27/14 Kelman seminar with Ashish Jha, the new faculty director at Harvard's Global Health Institute, and Andy Sechler, director for program quality at Last Mile Health (Tiyatien Health in Liberia.) Andy took us into Liberia, narrating how the civil war, poverty and overall lack of access to care created conditions for …
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Peruvian miners turn rain forest into wastelands. Corruption and mismanagement keep West Africans from clean drinking water. Hear these and other stories from international journalists who are mapping the impact of globalization on people and the planet. Join us Thursday evening, April 12, for a panel discussion on what it takes for journalists to accurately …
There's a great exhibit, "Global Health in Focus" at Boston's Photographic Resource Center (just featured in the Boston Globe and running through March 24.) Join us for a panel discussion on the subject on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 6:00 pm, at the BU George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. The Panelists: Jennifer …
Stefanie Friedhoff 