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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: What India Can Teach Indiana About Fighting Diabetes
Description: Amy Israel is the global health thought leadership and policy director for the health and pharmaceutical company, Lilly. In that role, she's recently launched a new pilot project to combat high rates of diabetes in three neigbourhoods of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. But this is a global health story, because the pilot project is using a model for health intervention that was pioneered in the developing world. This is often called the community health worker model, and global health nerds will be familiar with its basic outlines. But in short, it is the idea of training people o...