Collaboration Locally and Globally
March 12, 2013

Note: written by CEO and President of Physicians for Peace Brigadier General Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.) 

Just recently, Norfolk's Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences launched a Global Health Center to positively impact health and the well-being of populations.  One of its strategies is to stimulate collaborations...and Physicians for Peace has become an early beneficiary. The Center brought together Physicians for Peace with the National Center of Systems of Systems Engineering.   Huh?  How does systems engineering fit our model of teaching, collaborating and... read more

A Full Day of Training and Care in Kochi
November 16, 2011

 

Written by: Laura Gwathmey, PFP Staff
From the field: Kochi, India

Note: Physicians for Peace is in Kochi, India, for a weeklong mission focused on international collaboration and healthcare education. The mission comes just two months after a delegation from Kochi visited Hampton Roads for the Norfolk Sister City Association’s  (NSCA) Official Twinning Ceremony; Kochi, one of the principal seaports of India and the commercial hub of the tropical state of Kerala in southwest India, became Norfolk Virginia’s eighth sister city in 2010.

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1 percent: A matter of life and death
March 7, 2011

Written by: Malaka Gharib, ONE

Note: This is a special guest post from ONE. In 2009, Physicians for Peace honored ONE with the Charles E. Horton Humanitarian Award, our highest honor. For more about ONE, please visit their website.

Here’s a question that 63 percent of Americans can’t answer: How much of our government spending goes toward foreign aid? The answer: less than 1 percent.

According to a... read more

Global Citizen Diplomacy Initiative
November 16, 2010

Washington, DC—the U.S. Summit and Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy
Written by: Ron Sconyers, CEO & President of Physicians for Peace

"There’s a game-changing event going on this week in Washington, DC—the U.S. Summit and Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy.  The summit (for which I was privileged to play a small role on the planning task force) is the first such... read more

What We’re Talking About: the U.N. Summit and Millennium Development Goals
September 20, 2010

World leaders have just five more years to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDG) set forward by the United Nations 10 years ago. At least one of those goals – to improve maternal and child health – is a core component of the Physicians for Peace mission.

Leaders from around the world, including President Obama, have come together this week for a three-day summit focused on MDG. Today, Professor Jeffrey Sachs , Physicians for Peace’s 2007 Charles E. Horton Humanitarian Award winner, told NPR’s Morning Edition that the goals are still “realistic” – and necessary.

"There is... read more

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