global health diplomacy
A new public health collective is making great strides.
Public diplomacy means local community education in underdeveloped countries where disease is a stigma and reporting on issues like Ebola is poor. Ebola is now a front-page story and a social media phenomenon. Let us use that momentum to demand support to create effective village- and community-based education in Africa, Latin America and other places where diseases go unreported.
The urgent need to include the expertise of Russian professionals in international efforts to control the global TB epidemic must override U.S. and European reservations about partnering with colleagues based in the Russian Federation. Eight million lives depend on it.
International Relations Professor, Alan Henrikson once wrote that public diplomacy should be thought of as a form of engagement.