On March 30, Aga Khan Foundation Canada hosted the Canadian launch of Health and Poverty, Global Health Problems and Solutions with author Dr. Gijs Walraven, Director of the Aga Khan Health Services.
Drawing on twenty years working in community health in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Dr. Walraven discussed the complex links between health and poverty in poor countries, and offered solutions, based on experience and innovation, to some of the most critical healthcare challenges of the 21st century.
In North America, we are “victims of our own success,” Dr. Walraven explained. The burden of disease has become one of opulence, and our focus is curative rather than preventative. “We need a different approach in the developing world,” he cautioned.
On September 22, in partnership with the Committee of Entities in the Struggle Against Hunger and for a Full Life (COEP), Aga Khan Foundation Canada hosted the Canadian launch of Cotton, Computers and Citizenship: A story of economic and social change among rural communities in Northeastern Brazil with the author Dr. John Saxby.
