Ryan Carlson's Ride Across America
Fourth Year Medical Student
Ryan Carlson
In two months, fourth-year medical student Ryan Carlson will be joining the first ever “Ride For World Health,” a charity bike ride across the United States. Twenty-three other medical students from across the country will be making the ride with him. The goal is to improve awareness for world health issues as well as to raise funds for Partners In Health, a program started by Dr. Paul Farmer of Harvard to treat HIV/AIDS in Haiti. The students have already raised $50,000 toward its goal of $250,000.
Because of its unique nature, Partners In Health is important as both a model and a working system. It has been said that Dr. Farmer’s experiment may very well represent our greatest hope for developing a strategy to treat the world’s HIV/AIDS problem.
“Most striking to me is that currently only five percent of the world’s HIV/AIDS population is on effective therapy. Five percent!” commented Ryan Carlson. “To help change that figure, in our own modest way, we’ll be making over 40 stops on our way from San Francisco to Washington, DC, in churches, high schools, business associations, hospitals and other medical schools to educate people about this problem.”
Anyone wishing to make a donation should visit www.ride4worldhealth.org and pledge online.
Good luck, Ryan!
