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Why UChicago business students are learning about global health
Apr 9, 2021 Booth course and initiative foster interdisciplinary collaboration with UChicago Medicine
We often think of global health as something vast, but Prof. Olufunmilayo Olopade wants us to realize that impacting global health can be a local endeavor.
“We need to create new models for reaching the unreached: It doesn’t matter where they are,” she said.
This is one of the forces that guides Olopade’s work from her entrepreneurship, to the new class she launched with her husband, Prof. Christopher Sola Olopade. The two University of Chicago physicians realized that many health care scenarios can benefit from someone with business acumen, while most entrepreneurs lack connections to medical expertise.