[Sci-tech-public] "Rebuilding Haiti" Paul Farmer, 2010 Arthur Miller Lecture: FRIDAY!

[David Duran]

Rebuilding Haiti

Paul Farmer MD, PhD

 

2010 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics

         

DATE:           Friday, October 29th 

TIME:            4:00 PM

ROOM:          34 - 101

We are very pleased to announce that Paul Farmer has been selected to give
the 2010 Arthur Miller Lecture.  Medical anthropologist and physician Paul
Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's
poorest people. He is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an
international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct
health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on
behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer began his
lifelong commitment to Haiti in 1983 while still a student, working with
dispossessed farmers in Haiti's Central Plateau. Starting with a
one-building clinic in the village of Cange, Partners In Health's project in
Haiti has grown to a multi-service health complex that includes a primary
school, an infirmary, a surgery wing, a training program for health outreach
workers, a 104-bed hospital, a women's clinic, and a pediatric care
facility. Over the past twenty years, PIH has expanded operations to twelve
sites throughout Haiti and twelve additional countries around the globe. The
work has become a model for health care for poor communities worldwide: Dr.
Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad have pioneered novel
community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of
high-quality health care in resource-poor settings.  

Dr. Farmer holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he is the
Presley Professor of Social Medicine and the Chair of the Department of
Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; he is also
Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston. Dr. Farmer is also the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy
for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton. 

 

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