PHM-Exch> In memory of Davida Coady

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Hesperian Health Guides <info at hesperian.org>


Longtime Hesperian board member, advocate, and public health hero Davida
Coady took her last breath on May 3rd. On Hesperian's board for...
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Longtime Hesperian board member, advocate, and public health hero Davida
Coady took her last breath on May 3rd. On Hesperian's board for 27 years,
Davida actively built connections with social justice movements, myriad
grassroots health organizations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti,
Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Philippines, as well as with
high-level staff at the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the UNDP. In
1993 she rescued Hesperian and led its rebuilding in the ensuing years.
Among her many contributions she inspired Hesperian to expand its work into
creating accessible, encouraging, and practical information on women's
health.

Davida led an astounding life, pursuing health and justice on every
continent, providing direct service to refugees and people in struggle, and
achieved more in one lifetime than seems humanly possible. Her life is
beautifully memorialized in this obituary in the New York Times
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Trained as a pediatrician at Columbia University when that medical school
limited women to 10% of the class, Davida's life in public health spanned
several generations. She worked on internationally coordinated campaigns,
such as the eradication of smallpox and the establishment of nutritional
guidelines in humanitarian emergencies, as well as the daily emergencies of
poverty. In California, she helped establish the network of United Farm
Worker clinics, the Venice Family Clinic - the largest free clinic in the
USA, and was Medical Director for the Berkeley Free Clinic until her
diagnosis of cancer.

While working at Children's Hospital in Oakland, Davida realized that many
of the problems she saw in children were caused by the drug and alcohol
dependency of their parents. She began focusing on providing recovery
services and housing for people in poverty, most of whom lacked access to
any health services at all.

In her final months, Davida finished her memoir *The Greatest Good
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*detailing her wide-ranging life in the service of health justice and
achieving "the greatest good for the greatest number of people," available
from Hesperian. To make a memorial donation to Hesperian in Davida's honor,
please do so here
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Davida Coady also founded the San Carlos Foundation and Options Recovery
Services
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a drug and alcohol recovery program open to everyone, regardless of ability
to pay.

Davida acted globally, locally, and personally to touch so many lives.
Remember her work by carrying it on.

hesperian at hesperian.org
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