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Tue April 12, 2011
HUMANOSPHERE

Five Millennials on global health

Credit Tom Paulson
Sarah Dawson is a University of Washington senior majoring in public health and Spanish. She’s pictured here working with children at a Burmese eye clinic.

Global health is a big deal in Seattle.

As a matter of worldwide significance, it is of course a big deal everywhere — by definition. But what I mean is that global health is today the cause célèbre for Seattle and throughout the region. It’s especially popular among the Millennials.

“Global health is the movement of our generation,” said Kristen Eddings, a program associate at the Washington Global Health Alliance and one of the primary organizers of a big global health shindig in Seattle coming this June known as Party with a Purpose.

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