I love what I do because I know it matters.
Our world is unfortunately filled
with avoidable pain, suffering, death,
disease,
and illness. And I know that what I do
helps change that.
I'm Felicia Knaul and I'm proud to be an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School.
I also live with breast cancer.
I try to produce evidence-based
advocacy and advocacy inspired evidence
to improve policies and programs
globally and especially in low and
middle-income countries.
These we hope can close the cancer
divide
and help to generate more equity in the
world.
There is an incredible amount avoidable
death, avoidable pain, avoidable suffering,
and avoidable
illness in the world in which we live.
For example,
in Canada, 90 percent of children
with acute lymphoblastic leukemia can
hope for a cure.
The inverse is true in the 25 poorest
countries in the world --
90 percent will die. We can change
this.
