Pub­li­cis hosts so­cial health cham­pi­on Chelsea Clin­ton on eq­ui­ty, pol­i­tics and pod­cast­ing in health­care

For­mer first daugh­ter Chelsea Clin­ton re­mem­bers the day when she first be­came in­ter­est­ed in pub­lic health. She was 11-years-old and watch­ing TV news as she stuffed en­velopes in her dad’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign of­fice. It was 1991, and a re­port came on the news about NBA bas­ket­ball play­er Mag­ic John­son who ear­li­er that day re­vealed that he was HIV pos­i­tive. Clin­ton said the news­cast­ers were talk­ing about how coura­geous he was, and she re­mem­bers think­ing why does that have to be coura­geous?

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