The chief reason I wish to participate in the program is that it offers me the opportunity to put into active practice the principles that motivated me to pursue medicine. The initial impetus for my passion for medicine and public health emerged from my status as the child of immigrant physicians. I am extraordinarily grateful […]
Great Books for Those Interested in Global Health
Epidemiology Author: Leon Gordis MD, MPH, Dr.PH Summary: Based on his 30 years’ experience in teaching introductory epidemiology Dr. Gordis produced this book. It explains the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention explores the use of epidemiologic principles to identify the cause of disease and discusses how epidemiology should be used to improve evaluation and […]
Voices From the Ground
The distance between the halls of government or the ivory tower and the situation on the ground frequently obscures the voices of the communities and people nominally being helped. All global health work is ultimately local however making monolithic top down approaches an unsustainable paradigm. A major hurdle in developing more community-based approaches is a […]
