As the editor-in-chief of Global Pulse Journal for 2009-2010, I am honored to introduce our Spring 2010 issue.  With its theme of "Information and Communication in Global Health," we celebrate five years of evolution at GP – five years of medical students embracing the technological tools of global connectivity to tell stories and debate ideas.   We hope you enjoy the perspectives offered here by our authors, editors, and guests.

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Understanding the world takes more than statistics, it takes more than formal knowledge, it takes that personal experience of being with and respecting colleagues in other countries. When you can merge those emotional personal experiences with broad formal academic knowledge … you can see magnitudes of difference and seas of change. What I’m doing now in life, is Disneyfying information about the world, I make Pocahontas stories. If you don’t make a narrative about changes in the world, if you don’t dissect what is going on, you can’t change people’s views of the world. Otherwise we fall back into the colonial view of the West and the rest of the world.

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A meaningful commitment to global health and development requires a substantial commitment of time and energy, and many students wonder what a life in international work would look like, and how to approach a career in global health. Today’s medical student who is interested in global health can look at the path of Dr. Michael L. Bennish as an example of a life dedicated to international health.

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It’s a great honor to be invited by Global Pulse, a journal that is read around the world. I’m glad that you ask me to speak to the perspective of a physician-in-training, because that is what I consider myself – a young physician at the beginning of her career with a passion in global health.  As readers familiar with my writing with Nick Kristof know, I thought that I would have a conflict between the role of a writer and that of a physician-in-training when I first started working with him.

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