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Summit at USC Focuses on Global Health Care
November 17, 2011, Washington D.C. - At a summit at USC, Carol Spahn shared Accordia's approach to building and supporting Centers of Excellence.
"An entrepreneurial solution was outlined by Carol Spahn, executive director of Accordia Global Health Foundation, who spoke about her organization’s approach to creating and initially funding centers of excellence to drive health innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa, which eventually will evolve to being entirely run and funded on a local level.
"'It’s really about creating leadership, not just individual but institutional leadership,' Spahn said. 'We want to create a critical mass so that the best and brightest stay in Africa.'"
Click here to read a summary of the summit.
