Why UChicago business students are learning about global health
Apr 9, 2021 Booth course and initiative foster interdisciplinary collaboration with UChicago Medicine
We often think of global health as something vast, but Prof. Olufunmilayo Olopade wants us to realize that impacting global health can be a local endeavor.
“We need to create new models for reaching the unreached: It doesn’t matter where they are,” she said.
This is one of the forces that guides Olopade’s work from her entrepreneurship, to the new class she launched with her husband, Prof. Christopher Sola Olopade. The two University of Chicago physicians realized that many health care scenarios can benefit from someone with business acumen, while most entrepreneurs lack connections to medical expertise.
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Top executives seem to be wary of backlash from associating with former Trump officials.
By Tory NewmyerThe Washington Post
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Before she joined the Trump administration as transportation secretary, Elaine Chao earned millions of dollars over the past decade by serving on the boards of big public companies such as Dole Foods, Protective Life and Wells Fargo, according to corporate filings.
She offered sterling credentials to businesses eager to keep current with the Republican leadership: A former banking executive, she became the first Asian American woman to serve in a Cabinet when President George W. Bush tapped her to serve as labor secretary. She has been a regular at conservative think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and the Hudson Institute. Her husband is Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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On her identity as a Palestinian being inherently political
It s comical because all it takes is for me to use the word Palestinian and anything that I want to talk about no matter how far removed from politics suddenly is political. But at the same time . as Palestinians, as a people that do live under occupation, who are fighting for justice, it s hard to separate that reality from anything else that we do. Every person goes about it in a different way. I am in the food and writing world, and that s how I try to address or deal with that issue, from that angle. And someone else in a different sphere might deal with it from a different angle. . It can be a land mine, but it shouldn t be. . Food is the lowest common denominator we all have. . Regardless of where you come from or what religion you are or what your beliefs are, you have to eat.
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Cookbook author Reem Kassis says that many foods that are considered Middle Eastern or Israeli actually originated as Palestinian dishes. Dan Perez/Phaidon Press
Growing up in East Jerusalem, Palestinian cookbook author Reem Kassis never expected to enter the food industry. For her, the kitchen represented a life sentence for women.
Instead, Kassis moved to the U.S. when she was 17, first studying business at the University of Pennsylvania s Wharton School and then at the London School of Economics. It wasn t until she had a child that she began to see the kitchen as a powerful place where she could share important stories about food and culture with her daughter.