Tag: public health
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Keep this quiet storm!
The roosters are coming home. Every single one of them. What they forgot is that we are where we are by design. Where they fail to understand or see our worth, we know it to be our worth. Nothing we touch is by accident. We decide too what we touch. So it gives me great…
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Keep passing with distinction!
The month of December has been nothing but a distinct month. Three of my doctoral students defended their dissertation and just like that, our time together came to an end. Even though I will not be attending their graduation, it was truly an honor to pass all of them with distinction considering they were once…
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Keep knowing your worth!
It’s been three months since I transitioned to a much more supportive institution and space for my research with some really heavy weights in Global Health, D&I and grant-writing. Here are some key highlights: 1) Know your worth; 2) Dream about your worth even if for yourself alone: 3) Speak eloquently and proudly about your…
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Keep my story.
What you see are my struggles. The journey through dreams too. We have soared through the fire of our imagination. Soared too into the unknown. They other day, I asked someone if they would come along for the journey. They said no, not in words but action. I let them be, knowing soon, I would…
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Keep the art of gathering!
Grace A million notes of thanks lingered in a room this evening. Pumpkin pies, delightful communion, over chicken and greens. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the gift of gathering, for these moments of pampering, for the chance to remember what it means to connect with each other. They are like the moment when…
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Keep spreading light!
Some minds bend like trees, only to create a path that lead to dreams. Those that tell all the moments we create. A new sun. A dazzling hill. Drums beating. Mountains trembling. Children singing. As we inherit the truth of our beginning. We who were born of mists and dream. Forever creating a space to…
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Keep dreaming!
Some truths are in full cycle now. Many will not understand, how light unravels itself. But the truth is ours. It has always been now that we see the fruits of our dreaming. See antelopes bend to drink from streams dreaming. See the sun follow us across the horizon lingering. See too how dreaming set…
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Keep being a bright star!
We spent today discussing the approach section of a grant. It’s my least favorite section to write. One where I actually struggled to teach it. There are no right or wrong way to write an approach section. Every grant will be different I noted. The least you can do is anticipate the conflict inherent in…
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Keep, keep, your stories!
Some of us have been blessed or cursed to see beyond ourselves. Our only mercy is memory, but our regret is hell. Sometimes you don’t survive whole, sometimes you survive in parts. The key is the attempt and the surrender to memories that help you see beyond yourself. I am in a space where storytelling…
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Keep dreams that rise!
When they tried to bury our dreams to the ground, the dreams dug their way out of the ground, and with the strength of howling winds, they rose to the skies, with arms outstretched, boldly declaring, that dreams never die, that there are no dreams higher, than dreams rising out of the ashes, dreams rising…
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Keep knowing our rights!
Even today, we had to take a walk to clear our head, about how we made this all happen. Our minds are clear. We are stronger. We are better. When we look back, we wonder how, how did we make it this far and still without losing anything? How did all the ruckus from the…
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Keep disseminating with communities!
In 1980, Jack Knott and Aaron Wildavsky asked in a provactive article, “If dissemination was the solution, what is the problem?” They noted that premature dissemination in the absence of knowledge may contribute to information overload, thus resulting in underutilization. Furthermore, the issues dissemination sought to solve were not well defined resulting in blindly sharing…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 