what you dream when you were child and
if you have now what is your dream now
my dream is very simple to be a medical
doctor and go to Africa and save people
I was inspired by dr. Albert Schweitzer
1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner he devoted
his 50 years of life to saving life in
Africa he said the purpose of human life
is to serve to show compassion and the
will to help others I really want to
follow him and act upon what he said so
I entered a medical school and I started
visiting Africa in 1985 I visited
mahadesh capital of Somalia it was a
beautiful city with white sand beach and
green blue ocean and Arab influenced
white houses were shining and it took 8
hours to reach refugee camp on dirt road
and seven hundred thousand refugees fled
from territorial dispute in Ogaden
Ethiopia many children’s and women’s are
starving and sick and waiting for food
and medicine for hours in the place once
recorded as highest temperature in
Enosburg exceeding 50 degrees Celsius I
was very excited too
this patient and I said to myself wow my
dreaming is coming true but gradually I
came to know that reality my knowledge
and experience was not enough and
medicines are running out and even with
medicine people came back to clinic
repeatedly with a different type of
illness and sometimes dying without
having to clinic them because there are
root causes of lack of food and very
poor drinking water and sanitation none
of which could be held and cured by
medicine so I felt helpless powerless
and useless so I left this refugee camp
in despair but with a firm resolution to
come back again so in 1993 three months
after United Nations tube intervened the
Battle of Mogadishu I came to this Mario
game but it was midnight when I arrived
Mogadishu Airport by a small plane and I
jumped in pickup truck all the way to
downtown I couldn’t see anything except
the headlights of pickup truck and
frequent bursts of radiant lights just
by bombs and guns exploding around us
and finally one Somali passenger offered
me one room for sleeping but the next
day
when I woke up I couldn’t believe my
eyes the ceiling of my room or covered
with numerous bullet holes and working
outside I shall know building intact
without any bullet holes or aDNA and I
decided not to send any medical team to
mahadesh because of the security but my
judgment was right because three months
after I left this u.s. Black Hawk Down
was shot down and 18 American soldiers
were killed and finally US troops
withdrew from Mogadishu so again I felt
in myself helpless powerless and useless
and the saving life in Africa was
proving to be very difficult dream for
me so instead I went to United State for
studying global health and public health
and I went on to work in more than 100
countries through NGOs government
organizations academia and United
Nations and actually the people in need
were everywhere and I learned a lot so
today I want to share with you three
Lanning first hope for the best and
prepare for the worst I learned this
from the hostage-taking crisis in
Japanese ambassador’s residence I joined
that medical team to take care of
hostages Japanese hostages and we
prepared for every scenarios hoping for
the best but it were the worst case that
came to pass when the Special Force
launched a bloody military intervention
that killed two commandos
and all the militants and while the
older Japanese hostages survived without
the deliberate preparedness for the
worst-case that situation would have had
a very different ending
so the preparedness for the worst is
very key to success for any kind of
disaster secondly learning is trust and
building on the power of community I
learned this from Yammer where I worked
for three years from 2007 at a time
gamma was under military regime and
mothers and child death were among
highest in Asia and malaria and other
infections are rampant and on top of it
there are two very bloody and also
terrifying emergencies happened during
my stay first one was suffering
revolution a series of political and
economic projects supported by respected
monks on 28 September 2007
I witnessed through my office window
that military fired on the peacefully
demonstrating monks and general public
we couldn’t know how many people were
shot to death but mr. Nagaya japanese
for journalists was among them and
second one was a cyclone nargis on in
May 2008 hitting more than 130,000
people and that operation was very
difficult because affected areas so huge
and very hard to reach by car and boat
but in both cases what was really
heartwarming and surprising is the power
of community my local star
made every effort to help those
suffering and the local community even
though they didn’t have enough food or
water but they shared and Buddhist
temples became our center of shelter for
all the affected people third one don’t
look at the disease look at the sick
this is a saying in medical communities
meaning medical doctor should see the
patient as a whole considering not only
just health effect aspect but
psychological and the social and I found
this learning in my also work we tend to
see the humanitarian and health program
a program solely but we should see the
country as a whole and a health system
as a whole and we should support country
to build their own capacity and system
to attract that those programs so with
those learning I came back to Somalia
again for third time and since my second
visit of 1993 Somalia had been in chaos
in civil war for more than 20 years so I
at the time I was in charge of child
survival programs in UNICEF and I came
across a lot of challenges every day
like my local office was attacked and my
staff were taking hostages and a lot of
the serious drought departments left
millions of people starving and sick but
this time I didn’t feel helpless because
I had very strong team and local civil
societies more than 200 NGOs working and
supporting us so we dream it big and
plan a nationwide campaign to reach out
many children and women
with essential packages of services
record the child health day so tens of
thousands of health workers and
volunteers participated and we succeeded
in reaching out 80% of the old children
and mothers meaning 1 million more than
1 million children and women in Somalia
actually I gave all the credit to these
frontline workers who devoted their own
you know the risk and life through this
very very risky operation even inside of
the conflict zone I’m now working in an
international organization called Global
Fund to fight AIDS Tuberculosis malaria
in 1990s the world faced HIV pandemic
and the tuberculosis was a main cause of
death of AIDS and malaria was killing a
lot of children and women so millions
people are killed in 2000 at the g8
summit in Okinawa global leaders
gathered and discussed how to cope with
this global threat the idea of new
partnership 21st century partnership was
born which evolved into Global Fund to
make effective and innovative Global
Fund created mechanisms for all the
partners work together even from
government international organization to
private sectors civil societies and even
people living HIV and other diseases and
that result was amazing in the past 15
years 22 million people lives were have
been saved in over a hundred countries
and this slide showed that drastic job
in a death in Botswana which once had
the highest prevalence of AIDS
could you imagine over 40% of the
populations were infected of hiv/aids
but with those global effort we can
succeed in Justin Joe so the big tree
this victory is really credited to all
the patterns working together but now we
have a bigger dream to end epidemics as
a public health emergency by 2030 we
know it is very ambitious goal but I’m
still dreaming as I was in student days
so I want to give you three take up
messages first dream big but ask
yourself why you have that dream and why
you want to achieve that this why is as
dr. a mr. simon Sinek presented in a TED
talk this starting with why is very
important and compelled you forward to
achieve more than you dreamed so I asked
why did I want to be a doctor because I
want to save lives but on the way I
learned that to save more lives no need
to for me to be doctor
so I’m now not seeing any patient but
I’m seeing and caring for the country
and globe second keep your passion heart
keep your brain cool hot passion is a
driver to push you forward but you need
to keep your brain cool and smart to
think of how to achieve you go and what
do to achieve it so the hot passion
really gave me that an energy to keep
going and the cool
rain really helped me find solution
third one is a fine someone with the
same big dream especially if you feel
that your team is very difficult to
achieve they say two heads are better
than one but in this era of complexity
we should find different types of brains
and heads and think together and work
together to you know have a very big
team to achieve it so now we are facing
lot of challenges including poverty
conflict refugees global warming but at
the same time we have a lot of chances
so let’s have a big dream and make
better world and future together thank you very much
if you have now what is your dream now
my dream is very simple to be a medical
doctor and go to Africa and save people
I was inspired by dr. Albert Schweitzer
1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner he devoted
his 50 years of life to saving life in
Africa he said the purpose of human life
is to serve to show compassion and the
will to help others I really want to
follow him and act upon what he said so
I entered a medical school and I started
visiting Africa in 1985 I visited
mahadesh capital of Somalia it was a
beautiful city with white sand beach and
green blue ocean and Arab influenced
white houses were shining and it took 8
hours to reach refugee camp on dirt road
and seven hundred thousand refugees fled
from territorial dispute in Ogaden
Ethiopia many children’s and women’s are
starving and sick and waiting for food
and medicine for hours in the place once
recorded as highest temperature in
Enosburg exceeding 50 degrees Celsius I
was very excited too
this patient and I said to myself wow my
dreaming is coming true but gradually I
came to know that reality my knowledge
and experience was not enough and
medicines are running out and even with
medicine people came back to clinic
repeatedly with a different type of
illness and sometimes dying without
having to clinic them because there are
root causes of lack of food and very
poor drinking water and sanitation none
of which could be held and cured by
medicine so I felt helpless powerless
and useless so I left this refugee camp
in despair but with a firm resolution to
come back again so in 1993 three months
after United Nations tube intervened the
Battle of Mogadishu I came to this Mario
game but it was midnight when I arrived
Mogadishu Airport by a small plane and I
jumped in pickup truck all the way to
downtown I couldn’t see anything except
the headlights of pickup truck and
frequent bursts of radiant lights just
by bombs and guns exploding around us
and finally one Somali passenger offered
me one room for sleeping but the next
day
when I woke up I couldn’t believe my
eyes the ceiling of my room or covered
with numerous bullet holes and working
outside I shall know building intact
without any bullet holes or aDNA and I
decided not to send any medical team to
mahadesh because of the security but my
judgment was right because three months
after I left this u.s. Black Hawk Down
was shot down and 18 American soldiers
were killed and finally US troops
withdrew from Mogadishu so again I felt
in myself helpless powerless and useless
and the saving life in Africa was
proving to be very difficult dream for
me so instead I went to United State for
studying global health and public health
and I went on to work in more than 100
countries through NGOs government
organizations academia and United
Nations and actually the people in need
were everywhere and I learned a lot so
today I want to share with you three
Lanning first hope for the best and
prepare for the worst I learned this
from the hostage-taking crisis in
Japanese ambassador’s residence I joined
that medical team to take care of
hostages Japanese hostages and we
prepared for every scenarios hoping for
the best but it were the worst case that
came to pass when the Special Force
launched a bloody military intervention
that killed two commandos
and all the militants and while the
older Japanese hostages survived without
the deliberate preparedness for the
worst-case that situation would have had
a very different ending
so the preparedness for the worst is
very key to success for any kind of
disaster secondly learning is trust and
building on the power of community I
learned this from Yammer where I worked
for three years from 2007 at a time
gamma was under military regime and
mothers and child death were among
highest in Asia and malaria and other
infections are rampant and on top of it
there are two very bloody and also
terrifying emergencies happened during
my stay first one was suffering
revolution a series of political and
economic projects supported by respected
monks on 28 September 2007
I witnessed through my office window
that military fired on the peacefully
demonstrating monks and general public
we couldn’t know how many people were
shot to death but mr. Nagaya japanese
for journalists was among them and
second one was a cyclone nargis on in
May 2008 hitting more than 130,000
people and that operation was very
difficult because affected areas so huge
and very hard to reach by car and boat
but in both cases what was really
heartwarming and surprising is the power
of community my local star
made every effort to help those
suffering and the local community even
though they didn’t have enough food or
water but they shared and Buddhist
temples became our center of shelter for
all the affected people third one don’t
look at the disease look at the sick
this is a saying in medical communities
meaning medical doctor should see the
patient as a whole considering not only
just health effect aspect but
psychological and the social and I found
this learning in my also work we tend to
see the humanitarian and health program
a program solely but we should see the
country as a whole and a health system
as a whole and we should support country
to build their own capacity and system
to attract that those programs so with
those learning I came back to Somalia
again for third time and since my second
visit of 1993 Somalia had been in chaos
in civil war for more than 20 years so I
at the time I was in charge of child
survival programs in UNICEF and I came
across a lot of challenges every day
like my local office was attacked and my
staff were taking hostages and a lot of
the serious drought departments left
millions of people starving and sick but
this time I didn’t feel helpless because
I had very strong team and local civil
societies more than 200 NGOs working and
supporting us so we dream it big and
plan a nationwide campaign to reach out
many children and women
with essential packages of services
record the child health day so tens of
thousands of health workers and
volunteers participated and we succeeded
in reaching out 80% of the old children
and mothers meaning 1 million more than
1 million children and women in Somalia
actually I gave all the credit to these
frontline workers who devoted their own
you know the risk and life through this
very very risky operation even inside of
the conflict zone I’m now working in an
international organization called Global
Fund to fight AIDS Tuberculosis malaria
in 1990s the world faced HIV pandemic
and the tuberculosis was a main cause of
death of AIDS and malaria was killing a
lot of children and women so millions
people are killed in 2000 at the g8
summit in Okinawa global leaders
gathered and discussed how to cope with
this global threat the idea of new
partnership 21st century partnership was
born which evolved into Global Fund to
make effective and innovative Global
Fund created mechanisms for all the
partners work together even from
government international organization to
private sectors civil societies and even
people living HIV and other diseases and
that result was amazing in the past 15
years 22 million people lives were have
been saved in over a hundred countries
and this slide showed that drastic job
in a death in Botswana which once had
the highest prevalence of AIDS
could you imagine over 40% of the
populations were infected of hiv/aids
but with those global effort we can
succeed in Justin Joe so the big tree
this victory is really credited to all
the patterns working together but now we
have a bigger dream to end epidemics as
a public health emergency by 2030 we
know it is very ambitious goal but I’m
still dreaming as I was in student days
so I want to give you three take up
messages first dream big but ask
yourself why you have that dream and why
you want to achieve that this why is as
dr. a mr. simon Sinek presented in a TED
talk this starting with why is very
important and compelled you forward to
achieve more than you dreamed so I asked
why did I want to be a doctor because I
want to save lives but on the way I
learned that to save more lives no need
to for me to be doctor
so I’m now not seeing any patient but
I’m seeing and caring for the country
and globe second keep your passion heart
keep your brain cool hot passion is a
driver to push you forward but you need
to keep your brain cool and smart to
think of how to achieve you go and what
do to achieve it so the hot passion
really gave me that an energy to keep
going and the cool
rain really helped me find solution
third one is a fine someone with the
same big dream especially if you feel
that your team is very difficult to
achieve they say two heads are better
than one but in this era of complexity
we should find different types of brains
and heads and think together and work
together to you know have a very big
team to achieve it so now we are facing
lot of challenges including poverty
conflict refugees global warming but at
the same time we have a lot of chances
so let’s have a big dream and make
better world and future together thank you very much
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