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What is Global Health?


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Yasmine’s guest today, is Heather Hall:
Heather has a wide range of expertise in the field. She has a Graduate degree in global public health nursing, previously worked as a nurse in Kenya, did consulting public health work in Kenya and a few other African countries, is a former Program Coordinator for the Tuberculosis/Refugee/Immigration Programs at a health department in Ohio, and recently did COVID-19 policy work for a local health department in Oregon.

Yaz and Heather discuss the definition of Global Health, the Sustainable Development Goals and their relationship to Health, and dispel the three main misconceptions about global health.

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