Global Health

I attended the same workshop as Nandita at IYVS. I just wanted to add a few more points that stuck out to me during the workshop.

• When planning long term international projects, you must consider the issue of sustainabiliy. How do you get people out of the current crisis, and then build a new structure to avoid that crisis in the future?
• How do you go into a community and try to change it but not do any harm at the same time? And how do you respond to the crisis but not create dependency?
• Always remember to capitalize on the assests of the community.
• People in the affected community need to TRUST the intervener- a good relationship is very important to establish.
• How do we integrate men into healthcare discussions and projects? By focusing HIV/Aids campagins on men, we hope to change their focus from power and success to caring for their family and friends.
• A lot of microfinance projects take ppl from bottom of poverty to top of poverty, but not out of poverty
• There are 4 C's that Michael Diamond suggested for Global Health projects- Convergence (find mutual area of interest/concern), collaboration & cooperation (intervention), and communication (how do we talk to each other about what we're doing?)
• How can we integrate private and public sectors? We should collectively look at 1 goal and see how all these different resources available can help them.

Lesson to be learned:

Think differently, be creative, ask different and counter-intuitive questions, dont' stick to the status quo!!!