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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Gayle: Global poverty and poor health are symbiotic

As a pediatrician at an inner-city hospital, Dr. Helene Gayle found herself treating the same patients over and over. These children weren’t necessarily facing a particular disease — their visits had more to do with their family situations, events they couldn’t solve on their own. “After a while, I realized that if I really wanted to have an impact on these children,” Gayle said, “it wasn’t by practicing individual medicine.”

Gayle, Hunter-Gault to share experiences in global health sphere

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A journalist who has reported from South Africa and the Middle East will conduct an interview on the Amphitheater stage today. Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg, will interview Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA, at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater. They will discuss CARE’s work in the global health sphere.