The Health Requisite for Development

Last month, as I attended presentations at the World Economic Forum, I came away impressed by many of the conversations on addressing the world's overlapping economic, social, and environmental threats. But I also came away hoping for more discussion about health as central to meeting these global challenges.

Of course, I arrived at the Forum with strong and specific interests. As the leader of an organization that works with partner nursing and medical schools in Africa to train, support, and empower the continent's next generation of health providers and health system leaders, my interests are focused on health, sustainable economic development, and especially the connections between them.

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