Global Health Institute

Dr. Daniela Ligiero came to Georgetown as a speaker for the Conversations in Global Health series. She serves as an international advocate and CEO at Together for Girls, an international partnership, which includes 6 United Nations agencies and 22 countries, focused on ending child violence. During her talk, Dr. Ligiero also described her life events and the decisions that led her to her current position as one of the leaders in promoting the safety of children.

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.