Transcending Technology in Global Health: Julia Robinson at TEDxUofW

Julia Robinson is the Deputy Director of Côte d'Ivoire Programs and Director of Advocacy Programs at Health Alliance International, a center of the University of Washington's Department of Global Health. After graduating from Rice University, she joined the US Peace Corps and served over two years in Benin, at which point she likes to joke that Africa got into her blood -- literally and figuratively. Since then, she obtained a Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health from the University of Washington and currently serves as a faculty member at both schools. Her work at HAI focuses on strengthening public sector health systems and scaling up accessible, integrated HIV services in the northern regions of Côte d'Ivoire. Julia's TEDx talk will explore how it's time for us to transcend the idea that technology alone is the answer in global health and discuss some innovative ways to support the human health workers that are so critical to ensuring health for all.

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