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We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment where the power dynamics between men and women are shifting very rapidly, and in many of the places where it counts the most, women are, in fact, taking control of everything.
So we have 10 participants shifting from left to right or from right to left.
But we show there is a much larger number that would actually consider shifting their attitudes.
So I want everyone to understand the critical importance of shifting charity into enterprise.
In environmental circles, we often hear that, rather than shifting to renewables, we are continuing with business as usual.
Secondly, shifting from a linear, wasteful, polluting way of using resources to a closed-loop model.
We're watching the rising of the stars and the shifting of the tides.
This is shifting and reflecting functions.
By simply shifting my focus from trying to achieve more success to trying to achieve more harmony, I was immediately able to feel calm and focused again.
Just as water is able to find a solution without force or conflict, I believe we can find a greater sense of fulfillment in our endeavors by shifting focus from achieving more success to achieving more harmony.
It's about shifting academic culture from publishing to practice and from talking to doing.
My second point is, and I know I don't have to talk to an audience like this about such a thing, but power is not just shifting vertically, it's also shifting horizontally.
But a multiple polarity of power means shifting and changing alliances.
With 24/7 global fast-paced operations, crazy shifting schedules and ever-narrower expertise, more and more of us have to work with different people all the time to get our work done.
So what we're experiencing is something called shifting baselines.
And this is about shifting baseline.
The second story, also to illustrate another concept, is called shifting waistline.
We also said that the 21st century would see shifting climate zones, creation of drought-prone regions in North America and Asia, erosion of ice sheets, rising sea levels and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Or shifting the power in her classroom to her students by learning to listen to their experiences of racism and poverty.
The resulting shift to electric autos is going to be as game-changing as shifting from typewriters to the gains in computers.
However, especially where regulators are now instead rewarding cutting your bills, the investments are shifting radically toward efficiency, demand response, cogeneration, renewables and ways to knit them all together reliably with less transmission and little or no bulk electricity storage.
And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field, and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background, kind of morphing with color.
Our culture is shifting, and it's time.
It was then that I came across these books, and in these books I discovered the idea of task shifting in global health.
Well today, I'm very pleased to report to you that there have been many experiments in task shifting in mental health care across the developing world over the past decade, and I want to share with you the findings of three particular such experiments, all three of which focused on depression, the most common of all mental illnesses.
Now, if I had to draw together all these different experiments in task shifting, and there have of course been many other examples, and try and identify what are the key lessons we can learn that makes for a successful task shifting operation, I have coined this particular acronym, SUNDAR.
It seems to me that there are five key lessons that I've shown on this slide that are critically important for effective task shifting.
Now for me, task shifting is an idea with truly global significance, because even though it has arisen out of the situation of the lack of resources that you find in developing countries, I think it has a lot of significance for better-resourced countries as well.
For me, what's truly sundar about the idea of task shifting, though, isn't that it simply makes health care more accessible and affordable but that it is also fundamentally empowering.
Indeed, for me, task shifting is the ultimate example of the democratization of medical knowledge, and therefore, medical power.
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