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Forging A New Path Down A Very Challenging Road

THE IMPLICATIONS OF globalization surround us in our everyday lives, be it through the food we eat, the trade deficit we shoulder, or the avian flu that could threaten our shores. These reverberations resonate often for Health Affairs because its publisher—Project HOPE—is an international health education and humanitarian organization that operates programs in thirty countries around the globe. These pursuits—undertaken initially by the teaching hospital ship, the S.S. HOPE, which sailed the world staffed by volunteer American physicians and nurses, and now carried on through land-based programs—were Project HOPE’s raison d’être in its early years and largely remain so . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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