Atul Gawande: influencing Michelle’s daily life
by Michelle Zhang ’16 Hi there! I haven’t written in a long time, and there’s so much to tell! So, here goes (it’s partitioned for easier digestion): (1) Inspired by […]
Epiphany Toilet
by Steven Ham ’13 So I was watching an episode of “Scrubs” recently called “My Porcelain God,” during which the Janitor installs a toilet on the roof of the hospital […]
Global Health is more than just medicine and disease control
By Esther Hoffman ’13 This summer, I traveled to Moshi, Tanzania, with thirteen other Cornell students through Cornell’s Tanzania Summer Program. I went into the experience thinking that global health […]
Actually, the world isn’t flat.
by Audrey Fotouhi ’14 I’ve been feeling rather disconnected from the rest of the world as of late. Maybe it’s because over winter break we didn’t have an GHU sessions or […]
Vamos al colegio: First day of school!
Cultural lesson of the day: there are no bus stops (or routes for that matter) in Ecuador. Nonetheless, we somehow made it to the high school (Colegio Celleri) where CEPAIPA […]
¡Hola CEPAIPA!
After spending 15 hours in the Panama City airport attempting to sleep and almost missing our flight in the morning, we touched base in Guayaquil! We were then greeted by […]
Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
by Saif Ali Azam ’16 In his TED Talk from April 2012, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and writer, discusses some significant issues concerning modern health care: its cost, its effectiveness, […]
