For emerging global health professionals from the world’s “south,” choosing whether to focus their energy on local issues or on international challenges is always a dilemma, Chief Planetary Health Scientist of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Malaysia Renzo Guinto argues.

“One important crossroad that I’ve encountered is tension on whether I stay in the Philippines and, for example, receive my education here, gain more exposure in domestic public health, versus gain experiences from abroad,” he says in the latest episode of the “Global Health Matters” podcast with host Garry Aslanyan.

“We have pressing global health challenges that we certainly can contribute in terms of solving them, but also we still have the baggage of the local health problems,” he adds.

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