coaching for clarity and courage
This was written for a project which will never happen, but I thought it might be of use to people who work internationally but not in global health. Infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms, usually bacteria or viruses, and they […]
Read More »
I’ve been coaching and mentoring international development people for a while now. I wrote one of the first international development blogs, Blood and Milk, and it brought a lot of people to me who had really interesting questions. It was […]
Read More »
Everyone who works in health systems knows that if you design your system around exceptional people, it won’t work. You can’t assume that people will be brave, wise, or unerring. You need to assume that people will be ordinary. Sometimes […]
Read More »
Who is Will Pooley, you ask. He’s a British nurse (Note early sign of bravery: disregarding gendered assumptions about professions.) who worked in an infectious disease hospital in Sierra Leone during an Ebola outbreak. The situation was chaotic. He knew […]
Read More »
If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]