How Can a 21st-Century Online Social Movement Advance Global Health Equity?

Global Health Origin Stories

• 💡 Carole Mitnick was driven by concerns about global inequality, leading her to work on malaria and later tuberculosis in Peru.
• 🧠 John Green's parents instilled a sense of community activism, and his personal encounter with a boy named Henry in Sierra Leone sparked his deep engagement with tuberculosis.
• 🎯 Green became obsessed with understanding why he was so ignorant about TB, which was still the deadliest infectious disease globally.

Tuberculosis: A Disease of Injustice

• 📌 TB is highlighted as the exemplary disease of injustice and healthcare inequity, deeply intertwined with poverty.
• ⚠️ The speaker notes that the cause of 21st-century TB is not solely the bacterium, but rather human-built systems like colonialism and impoverishment.
• 🔬 While better tools are needed, the existing ones could end the TB crisis if human systems were more effective, but funding for new tools is diminishing.

The Power of Online Advocacy

• 🚀 John Green's online community, including