My inspiration this Mother’s Day morning

“Every time I look at my suffering, I see my finger prints all over it”

-Vinny Ferraro

So much potential inside us for our own liberation.

Happy Sunday.

Hope you are connecting with something, someone beautiful today

So glad I came out on this walk

Excited to see our short film depicting the lives of women with obstetric fistula chosen as an official selection World Health Organization (WHO) Health For All Film festival!! Please share this film widely to advocate for safe motherhood! dearbhlaglynn G4 Alliance WomenLift Health TERREWODE

CGHSR’s Fistula film has been chosen as an official selection at the World Health Organization (WHO) Health For All Film Festival! CGHSR Director of Global Women’s Health Dr Rahel Nardos acted as an executive producer on the documentary. Directed by: dearbhlaglynn. z.umn.edu/9i92 #Film4Health

Guess who I run into today

What a privilege to have been part of this transformational global partnership work and to see our fellows reach this milestone. Nothing gives me more hope than to see our young urogynecologists transform the care of women with pelvic floor disorders in Ethiopia

Well deserved congratulations graduates. Congratulations also to Dr Rahel Nardos and Dr Melaku for bearing these fruits!

Great meeting these inspiring group of women plastic surgeons at Ethiopia’s premier plastic surgery training program, at Alert Hospital. And wonderful watching the training collaboration with ReSurge International using technology from Proximie

Check 👇🏾out Damien Fair

Fantastic to see and welcome to the Ethiopian Neuroscience community! 🧠 IBRO - International Brain Research Organization bringing the world of neuroscience closer together. 🌍

I saw a young girl with recurrent UTI yesterday who is getting infections because

“I have no time between classes to pee. I will get suspended if I am late to class”

My teacher patients say “ I leak urine because I can’t leave class to pee”

Wake up Schools! Minneapolis Public Schools

Hope you were able to look at the sky wherever you are.

Sounds amazing Salome Maswime . Would have loved to join. May be next year

Happy Saturday fellow humans. We have 24 brand new hours in front of us.

Calling all #UMN faculty: CGHSR is seeking proposals for Global Health Seed Grants, funding of up to $25,000 that advances innovative global health research projects. z.umn.edu/9egp

Such a privilege to have this wonderful platform to reflect deeply about #WomensHealth #HealthEquity #globalhealth and #leadership with the one and only Chanda Smith Baker

Happy Sunday

My inspiration today

What a fantastic evening. Much gratitude to our Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility team, our supporters who attended the event and our partner Alice Emasu, founder and executive director of TERREWODE who joined us for this celebration and shared her inspiring work in #obstetricfistula .

What a great resource. Amazing work on the Gynecological surgery training section! Thanks for your leadership Dr Parker Andrea Parker