Category: Colombia

For Whom the Nobel Tolls: The People of Granizal

Post author By Open Hands Team
Post date December 22, 2016
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Caras De Granizal, Open Hands Initiative

In our first blog post in this Post-Conflict Colombia & Public Health project series, we shared our hopes for a brighter future in 2016. While the year has indeed been a tumultuous one, in some parts of the world there have been bright spots.

Just weeks ago, the Colombian Congress approved a revised peace accord between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, formally ending more than 50 years of armed conflict and earning Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, the Nobel Peace Prize.

Tags Citizen Diplomacy, Colombia, Diplomacy, Global Health, health diplomacy, public diplomacy, Public Health

Citizen Diplomacy Colombia Public Health

Open Dialogue: A Civic Duty to Promote Public Health

Post author By Open Hands Team
Post date December 19, 2016
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Hector Abad Gómez Cátedra, Open Hands Initiative — Hector Abad Gómez Cátedra

Open dialogue is a cornerstone of building trust and understanding as it provides a platform to share perspectives, exchange ideas, and bridge differences. For Héctor Abad Gómez, a prominent Colombian medical doctor, university professor, and human rights activist, creating a space to expand Colombia’s political and social discourse beyond the dominant voices of his time, […]

Tags Citizen Diplomacy, Health, health equity, IDPs, Open Dialogue, public diplomacy, Public Health

Chairman's Remarks Colombia Jay T. Snyder Public Health

Planning for a Post-Conflict Colombia: Emerging Public Health Leaders Develop Health Interventions for IDPs

Post author By Jay Snyder, Chairman and Founder of Open Hands Initiative
Post date January 22, 2016

This post first appeared on the Huffington Post. Fifty-five years ago this week, braving the cold winds of a winter’s January, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address imparting upon the American people words still true today: “In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure […]

Tags Diplomacy, displacement, Health, health diplomacy, health equity, health exchange, IDPs, Post-Conflict, Public Health, refugees

Colombia Public Health

Sharing our Health Stories and Finding Common Ground

Post author By Jody Sadornas
Post date January 10, 2016
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Dialogue. Sharing. Understanding. Reconciliation. Trust. Friendship. Community. Change agents. Celebration. These are just some of the words our faculty and student ambassadors have used to describe their experiences during week one of our Post-Conflict Colombia Public Health project. Sharing their personal health stories, whether as clinical practitioners, public health professionals, or healthcare users, common to all […]

Tags health equity, IDPs, Public Health

Colombia Public Health

Health Diplomacy: A Step Towards Peace

Post author By Jody Sadornas
Post date January 5, 2016

This post first appeared on the Huffington Post. Following the attacks in Paris late last year, Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem, What they did yesterday afternoon, flooded the Internet in response. The poem read:

Tags Colombia, Conflict, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, IDPs, Internally Displaced People, Post-Conflict, Public Health, refugees, School of Medicine - University of Antioquia, Student Exchange