Categories
Colombia Public Health

Sharing our Health Stories and Finding Common Ground

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 […]

Categories
Colombia Public Health

Health Diplomacy: A Step Towards Peace

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: