It’s well known at this point that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti. The worst cholera outbreak in recent global health records, in a country that hadn’t seen cholera in its record...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2017/03/16/the-uns-shame-and-haitis-suffering/
A friend of mine in Tajikistan used to consistently buy prepackaged foods for her children. Anything specifically marketed to kids caught her attention. She’d buy it – all of it, and feed it ...
Technically, they’re not 2015-specific worries, or even solely worries so much as some ideas. But it’s 2015 now, and this is what I’ve been thinking about lately: I have so many feelings ab...
I’ve always wondered about our obsession with sending old clothes overseas. No matter how many times the idea is debunked by experts and people who rant a lot, the idea doesn’t die. Why? What...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/08/05/swedow-obsessed-giving-away-old-stuff/
1. Can Elinor Ostrom’s work help us understand what to do about antibacterial resistance? I’ve been reading a lot of Ostrom in an attempt to develop an opinion, but it’s tough going for me....
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/05/01/things-ive-thinking-may-1st-2014/
My first couple of overseas jobs were pretty much just being the native English speaker on staff. Right after undergrad, I was an intern with the American University in Cairo. I drafted or edi...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2014/03/09/the-privilege-of-speaking-english/
Before I came to Kyrgyzstan, I spent three months in Central New York, within a hundred miles of where I was born. It was the longest time I’d spent there since 1993 when I left for college, ...
These aren’t predictions, exactly, or New Year’s wishes. More like positive signs I am hoping will occur. Clues that we’re getting our act together as an international system. The good ...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/12/29/humanitarian-response-complexity-and-uhc-my-high-hopes-for-2014/
A Russia DJ named Dima Maybe ten years ago, the project I worked for had a driver named Dima. Dima was a rockstar. He was exceptional in every way. Sure, he could pilot you unscathed through b...
Climate change is going to affect life on earth in ways we can’t even begin to understand yet, but the first impact is the one we’re seeing: extreme weather events. Hurricane Sandy last year,...
http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/11/29/gratitude-in-a-time-of-climate-change/