Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep stories about grief and love for children through books like Bloom!
Before the end of today, about 1,200 children in the U.S. will lose their parents. This translates to about 432,000 children annually. By the time most children turn 18, at least 1 in 13 of them would have lost a parent. My first death experience was as a teen through the loss of grandmother and…
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Keep your dreams!
My dreams are long and continuous. They cannot be separated from my every day life. Some days are ragged. Take the last three weeks of questions around funding global health. Other days are coarse. Take too the lack of stance on supporting global health. Still I know it will take everything to silence voices external,…
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Keep the 14th year anniversary of earning a doctoral degree!
Today marks 14 years since I got my PhD from Penn State University. When I look back at that experience, look back at the lessons learnt, one thing stands clear, that even if I loose everything today, I can rebuild from the ground up because of the people that helped to shape the story I…
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Keep the love of global health!
I only have one question for the present state of affairs with global health: where is the love? How do we love, not just ourselves and our work, but those of others, even if means loving the enemy as they work to end all we love. So where is the love and how do you…
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Keep life’s many thorns!
They say life will be full of thorns for those who do more than survive. I say if this is life, it is already thorny and not quite full and though this may feel like survival, at least we know the root for our thorns
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Keep living through this life like baby birds!
A baby bird hid underneath a large green tree afraid. One of his legs was injured and he felt safe underneath the tree, until he heard little footsteps approaching the tree. So unaware of the intent of these footsteps, the bird started whistling and limping trying its best to go very far from the tree.…
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Keep Mother’s Day!
If you ask me which blessings are wild, I may speak of the day I smiled next to a lion, moments where my walk was straight and confident, the day we held hands in the sight of many stands tall, so too the moment we laid eyes on a country life. Something’s have forced me…
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Keep the end of chaos with global health in mind!
If you ask how chaos begins with anything related to global health, I’ll start from the end, of how you finally release, that scream you let go in private. The prayers, many of faith, determination and belief in liberation ultimately lead to communities building out of helplessness, emptiness as they embark on journey towards the…
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Keep a Pope that personifies Global Health or this call to serve!
Today everyone watched, stared, and maybe even smiled as we celebrated the sight of white smoke billowing from skies. The graceful angles and the answered prayers that followed ushered Pope Leo squarely into the spotlight. Who is he? Why him? And how might we know when his ways are our ways? Only time will tell…
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Keep these moments with global health!
Some of us are stepping through the door full of curiosity for what this new phase of global health research will look like. Clearly it would feel like a helicopter landing in areas it shouldn’t be. We are waiting for answers, solutions, even rain to come and soothe the chaos about to unfold. When time…
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Keep global health!
I would rather study global health than any other field, yet all fields have their force worthy of reflections. Complex issues requiring multiple lens pulls me forward, bravely, to navigate, even if slowly, what can be done to address the complexity. Global health requires many endeavors with ample narratives that require us to turn the page…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 