Advice for Global Health Students from Global Health Leaders

 
Advice delivered at the virtual University of California Global Health Day 2020.

Elizabeth Bukusi – Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
So much in the world may different from what students experience on a day-to-day basis. We are interdependent. What affects me will eventually affect you.  
 
Ramanan Laxminarayan – Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Disease Dynamics, University of Washington
Now is the moment to articulate the system we want to see going forward.  It is an opportunity to have a vision of the global health system, for recognizing that health should be a central part of human development. That has to be the new paradigm that helps guide our choices in to the future. 
 
Andres Lescano, Associate Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
This is the moment for team players. For being humble. Not to shine and be up front in the camera. This is the moment to work together and build a system. It does not matter how many letters you have after your name. What matters is how you lead. Your name does not have to be remembered. That is not the issue at the moment. 
 
Why it matters: this pandemic is not nearing the end. It may not be near the end of the beginning. What each of us does matters.  If ever there was a time for honesty, humility, compassion and commitment, it is now.