𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦: 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. For some, a flight is just a means to get from one place to another, a transition across geography. But for me, my first flight was nothing short of a sacred rite of passage. It was the unlocking of a lifelong fascination, a deeply spiritual, emotional, psychological, and intellectual journey, one that fused childhood dreams with destiny in real time. I did not merely travel from Ghana to the United States. I crossed thresholds of imagination, purpose, and becoming. And in the skies, everything I had once studied, dreamt, and prayed for converged into one breathtaking experience. I still remember the soft Harmattan wind that used to blow through the corridors of my senior high schools in the beautiful country of Ghana, in West Africa. I was a general science student back then in the year 2010, young, curious, deeply intrigued by how things worked. Among all the subjec...
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𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐨𝐫, 𝐌𝐃, 𝐏𝐡𝐃 – 𝐚 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 | 𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 Mathias Etsey Edor is an African Medical Practitioner (MD) and a Global Public Health Practitioner. He’s also an Early Career Researcher specialising in Family & Reproductive Health (FRH). With over 5 years of clinical and research experience, he is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Health (DPH) at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, Ghana, focusing on the Reproductive Health Consequences of Intergenerational Sexual Partnership. Dr. Edor holds a Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences), a Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB/MBBS) and Master of Public Health (MPH) with specialisation in Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) from the University of Ghana (UG). He holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with specialisation in Strategic Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment, and Huma...