CSPAN Global Health Innovators August 17, 2014
My mother realized stories could open our world to her. Every day when i got back home from school, she would say tell me a story. We would just talk. That is the way we learn to communicate in our family. Now that i work in Global Health my world is dominated by numbers. We look at databases and spreadsheets. We read percentages. The biggest lesson i have seen in Global Health is that for us, numbers dont inspire people to act. Stories do. If you work in Global Health you have to remember every single day that statistics arent just a random number. They are action representing people and fami...