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Where to train the world's doctors? Cuba.

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Gail Reed |

TEDMED 2014

• September 2014

Big problems need big solutions, sparked by big ideas, imagination and audacity. In this talk, journalist Gail Reed profiles one big solution worth noting: Havana’s Latin American Medical School, which trains global physicians to serve the local communities that need them most.

Big problems need big solutions, sparked by big ideas, imagination and audacity. In this talk, journalist Gail Reed profiles one big solution worth noting: Havana’s Latin American Medical School, which trains global physicians to serve the local communities that need them most.

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Gail Reed

Cuban health care expert

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American journalist and Havana resident Gail Reed spotlights a Cuban medical school that trains doctors from low-income countries who pledge to serve communities like their own.

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C. William Keck and Gail Reed | American Journal of Public Health, August 2012 | Article

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Conner Gorry | MEDICC Review, July 2012 | Article

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André-Jacques Neusy and Bjorg Palsdottir | MEDICC Review, July 2011 | Article

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