Recent American University graduate Scott Weathers works as a Global Health Corps program associate. In his Medium post, he talks about how individuals can impact global health.

 Excerpt: 

Like a lot of folks in global health, most of my reading is from boring, dense, and dry journals. I don’t get a ton of sunlight and at the end of most days; my eyes are tired from looking at a computer screen. However, every once in a while, a book will come along that reminds me that global health is ultimately about people and our shared experience. The academic in me wants to believe that history is a story of structural factors, but one book this year showed how a single person’s personality and sheer force of will can help bend the trajectory of life of millions for the better.

That’s why A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children resonated with me so deeply. The most fundamental injustice that I see in our world is that we have the technology, knowledge, and wealth to prevent massive amounts of suffering in our world, but we largely choose not to. Jim Grant’s career as Executive Director of UNICEF is about how the world, collectively, began to reverse that decision and value the lives of children.

Read his article, “A Mighty Purpose:” How individuals can impact global health, on Medium.com