Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Creating Change & Improving Health: Meet the Schweitzer Fellows




Advocating for Women's Health: Leadership by Example Lecture With Gayle Riedmann, CNM
The Chicago Leadership By Example Lecture Series enters its fifth year with a talk by advocate and certified nurse midwife Gayle Riedmann on Wednesday, June 13.

ASF Announces 2012-13 Schweitzer Fellows
243 graduate student Fellows will spend the next year improving community health, developing lifelong leadership skills, and living Albert Schweitzer's message of service.

A ‘Champion of Change’ for Uninsured People in Baltimore
Schweitzer Fellow Raquel Bracho was recently honored by the White House as a Champion for Change for her commitment to community service.

From Rural Alaska to Downtown Boston, Improving Children’s Oral Health
For the past year, Schweitzer Fellow Patricia McClory has set up shop in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Primary Care Clinic waiting room—where she delivers interactive oral health education for children and their parents as they wait to be seen by their pediatrician.

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