Category: Thought Leadership

When talking about global health activity here in Atlanta, we typically focus on diseases like malaria, Guinea worm or river blindness. Rarely, do we talk about mental health.

An Atlanta-area company recently harvested its first crop from a model farm it has developed in the African nation of Zambia.

In a college classroom in North Carolina a professor of Global Health Ethics puts a deceptively simple question to the class: “what causes disease?”

While we have been working to tackle the diseases of poverty, the diseases of wealthier countries have sneaked into the same populations we serve.

Where poverty exists, so do high rates of preventable disease. And where such disease exists, poor sanitation is often a root cause.

Did you send a greeting card to someone over the weekend to mark World Water Day? Probably not.