How to lead when everything falls apart | Wahid Majrooh | TEDxGVAGrad

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Wahid Majrooh shares his experience leading Afghanistan’s health system in 2021 as Kabul collapsed. Through his personal story, he explores what true leadership means in moments of crisis, showing how presence, courage, and service can inspire hope even in the darkest times. Wahid Majrooh, MD, MSc, MA, MAS is a global health leader and former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, who led the country’s health system through COVID-19 and conflict emergency. Shaped by firsthand experience of crisis, he founded the Afghanistan Center for Health and Peace Studies in Geneva and serves as an Executive-in-Residence Fellow at GCSP and an Academic Fellow at the Geneva Humanitarian Studies Center. His work focuses on global health diplomacy, health system strengthening, geopolitics, politics of global health and leadership in fragile settings. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.

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