ATLANTA—Humanitarians gathered at Emory University in Atlanta April 13–15 with the goal of igniting an international peace-building movement.
Over 200 speakers, exhibitors, and participants came from around the globe for an opportunity to learn, share, and help create innovative ways to improve global health and sustainability. Topics reached beyond the United States from Ghana to Tibet, Kuwait, Honduras, and more. Speakers ranged from Gandhi’s granddaughter to the keynote speaker, Barbara Marx Hubbard.
Hubbard, a futurist, author, and educator, is the subject of a biography by Neale Donald Walsch called “The Mother of Invention.”
Hubbard said a student of hers had invited her to the summit, which was a “global town meeting in the round with the common goal of matching needs with resources, with the theme ‘global health caring.’” She said a valuable part of the meeting was that “it’s not voting, win or lose, it’s co-creating, and I feel that’s very important.”
Dr. Neil “Doc Hollywood” Shulman, associate professor of medicine at Emory, wrote and co-produced the 1991 film about his work called “Doc Hollywood.” Shulman led the global summit, introducing nearly all of the speakers, many of them distinguished doctors and humanitarians.
He spoke before the summit of one of them: Dr. Dollar. “I’ve been with Emory a long time, I’ve been here 45 years, and one day after meeting Dr. Dollar, I found out people like this are not necessarily one for attention, and there are others like him in the world,” he said.
