Global Health Institute

On February 15, 2019, Ambassador Jimmy Kolker facilitated a lunch conversation with Global Health Initiative student fellows. Ambassador Kolker shared his wisdom with us, drawing from his diverse and extensive experiences as U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1999-2002) and Uganda (2002-2005), Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator in the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (2005-2007), Chief of the AIDS Section at UNICEF’s New York headquarters (2007-2011), and Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services (2011-2017). Throughout the conversation, he emphasized the importance of collaboration for the success of global health.

I was very excited to hear Dr. Daniela Ligiero, CEO of the public-private partnership Together for Girls, because of her extensive experience working for the federal government, as well as top international organizations. However, after the talk I was left thinking about the future of Dr. Ligiero’s initiative and global health.