Advancing the Global Good through Partnerships - Usha Balakrishnan
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to steal a few hours of Usha Balakrishnan’s time. I first saw Usha at the Global Health Council meeting in 2006 and was both wowed and inspired - she is a global health mover and shaker with strong business, technology and non-profit experience (read her bio here). She is now devoting her life to a broad range of global health issues. I am writing about our conversation here just to introduce Usha and her new non-profit, CARTHA. We had a refreshing dialogue about a wide variety topics and also about challenges in global health. For example while there has been a very recent surge of interest in global health as a field or major at the university level, we wondered where all the new trainees where going to go and whether there was adequate infrastructure to support smart placements of students eager to give back.
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