School of Public Health alumna Sakena Yacoobi, MPH, has received the $1-million Opus Prize for 2013 from Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.
It will fund her work with the Afghan Institute of Learning, which she founded in 1995 to promote education and health services for women and children in war-torn Afghanistan.
Watch and read about her work to better humankind.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/sakena-yacoobi-opus-prize_n_4277015.html
Loma Linda University awarded Ms. Yacoobi a doctor of humanitarian service in 2008.