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To me it was important that I was passionate about what I did and so my career is crazy.

The threat of it is around HIV and social justice and caring for the vulnerable.

So when people say, oh, I want to have your career, I'll say, there's no way you could even

recreate that if you wanted to because I didn't have a map laid out and I think if I hadn't

stumbled into HIV I don't know if I'd be the leader I am today I think that if you're really passionate about

something leaders also emerge because it was so important to me that the

communities around me had a voice and had the best care they can.

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Sheila Davis is the CEO of Partners in Health.

The nonprofit sends its doctors and nurses to poor and underserved places throughout the world

to provide medical care.

Its staff also mentors nurses in those communities and hires

and trains locals to be health care workers. Sheila started at Partners and Health in 2010

as a nurse and nurse coordinator responding to the earthquake

that devastated Haiti. A few years later she headed up the organization's

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