Introduction: Inspiring Lives
These inspiring lives are a small sampling of many, many heroes of global health, sung and unsung, who are working around the world today.
Inspiring Lives: Zhu Chen
Zhu Chen never expected to be the public face of the world’s largest health system.
Inspiring Lives: Tachi Yamada
“Every step…that I’ve taken in my career, I’ve focused on having maximal impact on people’s lives”
Inspiring Lives: Rajesh Panjabi
Rajesh Panjabi co-founded the local NGO, Tiyatien Health in Liberia. Tiyatien is a local word meaning both truth and justice; Panjabi’s interpretation is “justice in health.” TH now runs the largest rural AIDS clinic in the country.
Inspiring Lives: Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter
“It’s nauseating to see, and it’s difficult to sleep at night knowing that diseases like this are totally unnecessary.”
Inspiring Lives: Tore Godal
“It would have been very frustrating to come home from that and live in Norway having accumulated all this insight into leprosy.”
Inspiring Lives: Sandeep Kishore
“In part because of Sandeep’s work, students are demanding science courses on neglected diseases.”
Inspiring Lives: Alejandro Cravioto
“Imagine you have half the population of the United States living in the state of Iowa, except 70 percent of the country is flooded. That is Bangladesh.”
