Human Capital
Those of you who have been following my blog know all about David the Piano Player, the film project I have been working on the past two years. Well, I was able to do this as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar which is a program in the human capital portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The RWJF is the America’s largest philanthropic organization dedicated to improving health and healthcare. They invest in many great projects but they also invest in people, hence the term human capital.
I am incredibly thankful to the RWJF for allowing me time and space to think, dream, and be creative about health. Not having to worry abou a salary for two years and have protected time to continue to do ethnographic work has been critical for my career and for stregthening TruthAIDS. I am sure my upcoming Washington D.C. move would not have been possible without their support.
That said, RWJF just posted an article about me and David the Piano Player for their website. Click here to read.
I am an Ethiopian- American public health physician that is using oral histories to teach about health. I have been listening to stories as a public health practitioner for a long time and as a physician for the past six years. In medicine, there is a true moral compass that points north. These stories are meant only to serve the patient. This blog is my attempt at documenting the stories that have the potential to teach how to heal for us all.
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