[bioundgrd] Fwd: An Evening with Joia Mukherjee: Global Healthcare and the Haiti Crisis, TODAY 5/10, 6:00pm

[Janice Chang]

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>From: Omar Abudayyeh <<mailto:oabudayyeh at gmail.com>oabudayyeh at gmail.com>
>Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:04 PM
>Subject: An Evening with Joia Mukherjee: Global Healthcare and the 
>Haiti Crisis, TODAY 5/10, 6:00pm
>To: @<http://mit.edu>mit.edu
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>The Foundation for the International Medical Relief of Children 
>(FIMRC) and the Global Poverty Initiative (GPI)
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>present
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>An Evening with Joia Mukherjee: Global Healthcare and the Haiti Crisis
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>Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director of Partners in Health
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>Monday, May 10, 2010
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>Dinner at 5:30pm, Seminar begins at 6:00pm
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>Room 34-101
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>We hope you will join us on Monday, May 10th, when Dr. Mukherjee 
>will discuss problems with healthcare in the developing world, 
>especially with a focus on children. She will speak about health 
>care delivery and treatment of chronic diseases in resource-poor 
>settings and how the PIH model and mission fits into this. As she 
>was heavily involved in PIH's efforts in Haiti, she will also cover 
>how she helped respond to the recent earthquake in Haiti. Dr. 
>Mukherjee arrived to Haiti within 48 hours of the earthquake and has 
>worked with PIH's sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, to respond 
>immediately to the crisis. Dr. Mukherjee has called for hiring and 
>mobilizing community health workers at the grassroots level and 
>rebuilding the capacity of Haiti's public sector to provide health 
>care and other essential social services.
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>Dr. Joia Mukherjee was trained in Infectious Disease, Internal 
>Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and 
>has an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an 
>Associate Professor at the Division of Global Health Equity at the 
>Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she 
>teaches medical students, residents and fellows in the fields of 
>infectious disease, global health and health disparities. Since 
>2000, Dr. Mukherjee has served as the Medical Director of Partners 
>In Health, an international medical charity with clinical programs 
>in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Burundi and 
>inner-city Boston. In this capacity, she is involved in programmatic 
>and clinical work to provide health care and reduce health 
>disparities by developing public sector, community based programs 
>with local colleagues in those countries. Additionally, Dr. 
>Mukherjee consults for the World Health Organization on the 
>treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries and is the 
>director of PIH's advocacy arm, the Institute for Health and Social 
>Justice, which seeks to use field-based and scholarly evidence to 
>draw attention to problems of the world's poor and advocate for 
>large scale social change. She has a three year-old son named Che 
>who travels the globe with her and has visited twenty-four countries 
>to date.
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>Her seminar will be held in MIT building 34, room 34-101. Dinner 
>will be served at 5:30 and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. This 
>seminar is free and open to the public.
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