“IN CONFRONTING GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES, engaged citizenship and humanitarian action can be a kind of a living poetry that can help us see ourselves as we are and as we can be. These can be an imagining and an awakening. It is as Ben Okri, the contemporary Nigerian poet has said, ‘An awakening in the midnight hour…freeing ourselves from our smallness and giving ourselves our own greatness.’”

–Dr. James Orbinski,
 former president,
Doctors Without Borders
Aspreva Distinguished Speaker, March 4

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