“I had been given so much. I wanted to give back.”
Connie Davis (’67) had planned to give back by dedicating one year to international public health. It turned into a mission to eradicate smallpox in India. That endeavor gave Davis even more opportunities than she could have ever imagined.
Her projects and accomplishments vary from working with UNICEF, helping to raise Senegal’s childhood immunization rate from 40 percent to 80 percent in two years, to presenting research to the Dalai Lama on increasing injected drug use causing HIV/AIDS in Tibetan youth.