Global Health Ideas

You know what happened in the 1960s? Here are several things:

• The first debate for a presidential election was televised.
• The Soviets sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too.
• The Berlin Wall was built.
• The Peace Corps was launched.
• Rachel Carson warned that our earth would die of pollution and chemicals.
• Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, “I have a Dream”.
• The first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination.
• President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam.
• Woodstock happened.
• Malcolm X, JFK and MLK were assassinated.

The other thing that happened – the passage fo the Foreign Assistance Act. See the below short video and campaign for why this is important:

For more on this very cool video by CGD see their website devoted to this here and think about signing their petition. They also have a great set of blogs, the health one (Global Health Policy) is here.