Health

In East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh, India, near the mouth of the Brahmaputra River in the town of Sille, a primary health center serves six major rural villages and a growing migrant population of more than 10,000 people. The surrounding indigenous population is within a 12km walk over difficult terrain to the primary health center, which was seldom used and was in such a dilapidated condition that curative and preventative care was practically non-existent.

Dr. Raj Arole with Future Generations Master's Degree Students

The Future Generations Graduate School celebrates the legacy of Raj Arole, who died on May 25, 2011 at the age of 78. Our alumni, faculty, and staff remember him as a “wonderful humanitarian and social reformer, loved, honored and respected by countless people around the world for his lifetime of service to the poor.”

At the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, the International Health Section commemorated the life and work of the late Carl E. Taylor. An all-day pre-conference workshop focused on Dr. Taylor's pioneering vision and achievements in community-based primary health care. Future Generations staff and colleagues organized two scientific panel sessions to commemorate Carl's work with "how-to" sessions on the methodology and field applications of Seed-Scale, a process for comprehensive community-based change.