[Mitworld] Paul Farmer on Rebuilding Haiti, Jane Pauley at McGovern Institute

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 21 |  December 22, 2010

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Rebuilding Haiti
October 29, 2010

Difficult as it is to look beyond the acute misery of Haiti’s current crisis, Paul Farmer proposes 
that aid agencies and others concerned with rebuilding focus on the nation’s “old, chronic problems.” 
There’s no shortage of recovery ideas, he says, but these will go nowhere if they do not also advance 
the long-neglected, basic rights of Haitians.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/849

Speaker:
Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health

Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School


Event Host:
Program in Science, Technology and Society

"One thing is clear: There is always a role for the promotion of basic rights, like the right to 
health care. (The trick is) how to do this in the field, and not just win an argument in seminar."
-Paul Farmer

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A New Language for Mental Illness
October 14, 2010

Mental illness needs a “new narrative,” says
Jane Pauley. Just as cancer has moved from the shadows to pink ribbons and races for the cure, mental illness must 
shed its public aura of fear and shame. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/847

Speaker:
Jane Pauley
Broadcast journalist and author


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"Metaphor is a simple bridge over complexity, and demystifying the brain is a step toward destigmatizing 
mental illness."
-Jane Pauley

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In The Pipeline:

Mixing Oil and Ecosystems

Presented By:
MIT Museum
Soap Box Series

Speaker:
Christopher Reddy
Marine Chemist and Director, Coastal Ocean Institute
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

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