Tag: public health
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Keep blessing the boats or what I call Onyelo!
I see the tide clearly. I know the edge of understanding too. Both have carried me out, beyond fear, through right paths and in a darkness so deep. We have been kissed, like a morning star and the wind has turned. We find ourselves near pools of fresh water. We are certain that water loves…
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Keep the love for writing with children!
My daughter writes. Not things simple, like “How are you,” but things complex like “I am well and I hope the same for you given these moments we find ourselves in.” Everything she writes is like an epiphany of sorts, of what can happen when you teach the love for writing early. Each sentence, each…
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Keep listening and learning from communities!
I have been thinking lately about how we listen and learn from communities. Couple of weeks ago, I was in a room full of experts who noted that young people as a group do not have the right to speak for themselves about things that matter to them like their health. Imagine, in 2024, we…
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Keep listening and learning from young people!
Young people do not need adult-centric rules. They need you to see them in all their diversity. To listen and learn from them to. Not as afterthought. Not with limited voices. But with wisdom and grace for the lives they lead. I have always known young people to be creative, resourceful, with informed ideas that…
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Keep this simple word for single dose HPV vaccines, It works!
I plucked these words in a room full of powerful women and men this week. It works. A single dose. Like a tree with a million roots. A simple word, is the shortest distance between minds. It works. A single dose. The truth of today. Ripe for tomorrow. For an eternity of dreams. Like seeds…
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Keep creativity with healing!
They say the main function of anyone who writes or performs art is, to imagine a different world, to do so in awe of the possibilities of what can happen when we begin with our imagination. I was in a room this evening where panelists spoke of imaginations and dreams and what it can do…
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Keep embracing all of you!
I am the product of a complex system, but a producer of my own reality. For the past 4 years, I have used this space to tell my own story of this reality. Each time you see me, I promise, you will see something different, like a kaleidoscope. Take today, not only did I create…
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Keep change!
We accept change without reason, for good or bad or wise. We accept it even if we never understand. We accept it when questions still remain. Like drops of rain, that fall unrehearsed, like a fragrance that clings to air, like joy that evolves over time, we accept change, day by day like the silence…
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Keep this gratitude for the first ever megadesignathon multi-disease health campaign!
This is the way I would like to dream, with a team as tall as evergreen palm trees. A community as deep as any stream of water. I’d like to dream while the day is young, the skies are clear and our feet are planted as we dance near streams of water. They say gratitude…
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Keep the days of Temi
Things are clear. Things are starting to fall in place with grace like a gazelle. We heard of dreams, those full of shields for communities, those steady and easy. Those of hero’s, those unboxed, many with substance and hue, playlets and blues. Now, our dreams boom, they do so with the wind, do so as…
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Keep tomorrow’s dreams!
We sat and watched the start of what can only be described as divine. While I am slowly discerning a lot about life these days, to see possibilities, dreams fulfilled, those in the Illuminating phase keeps me humble. When we decided to carry out our latest project as a mega designathon, I thought, perhaps I…
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Keep this view of the world!
I read an article entitled “a very narrow view of the world” by Dr. Sandro Galea that made me ponder about my role working to study health. Over Easter dinner, I was asked what i did for work and the descriptions kept changing until my soul settled with the words, “I am in service to…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 