Ten Lessons From a Career in Global Health: Jon Rohde

Kul Gautam alerted us to a new publication by Dr. Jon Rohde:

Dr. Jon Rohde, a dear friend, mentor and colleague of mine, and many others at UNICEF from our time together during the Jim Grant era shares the lessons learned from 50+ years of his life dedicated to promoting global health focused on child survival and development.

I had the pleasure to work directly with Jon in Haiti and Indonesia and benefit from his guidance during my time helping Jim Grant orchestrate the World Summit for Children in 1990.

It was Jon Rohde who inspired Jim Grant to launch the visionary and ambitious child survival and development revolution in the 1980s and 90s that saved the lives of millions of children that the former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof credited for saving more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong.

Jon Rohde and wife in cyclone relief work in Bangladesh, November 1970

Click on the Title do access the article by Jon Rohde directly in the The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health

Ten Lessons From a Career in Global Health: Guidance to Those Considering a Life Working With the Poor Countries of the World

"Global health, defined by the World Health Organization as “priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide,” is an expanded view of traditional public health. While utilizing many of the tools widely taught in schools of public health, its emphasis is both on reaching the poorest and most isolated populations and transferring knowledge and skills for their benefit. ..." – By Jon Rohde