The grass roots of Global Health in the view of Astha Ramaiya
On the 27th of July 2011, we had a young intelligent lady, Astha Ramaiya attend our lunch meeting to talk to us about her ventures in Global Health. With a MSC in Public health from London, she found it only beneficial if she came back to her roots to implement her expertise in her home town, Tanzania. Astha took the opportunity to share her experience in working in her current place Ifikara Health Institute in the area of reproductive health and HIV. She shared her utmost experiences in reproductive health, gender empowerment, and infectious diseases to the grass roots levels. The amount of efforts and work proceeded by such a dynamic go getter AsthaRamaiya was very impressive.
We also took the opportunity to celebrate our PDG Hatim Karimjee’s birthday and shared some delicious black forest cake and sang (in tune) birthday songs but no one dared sang the “How old are you now” part.
In this meeting, we also learned that Rtn. Sadru Sharrif (our most senior member) has now a blackberry. J