Tag: Haiti

  • Nation & World

    Cholera strain tied to South Asia

    A team of researchers has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America.

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    Partnerships, training key to global health

    Partnerships, training of local medical personnel, and practice in delivering services are all key if the effort to improve global health is to be successful, say speakers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health’s inaugural symposium.

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    Alternative vacation

    Harvard students and friends spend two weeks working and helping an impoverished corner of the Dominican Republic.

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    Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…

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    Helping Haiti

    The world mobilized to help Haiti after that country suffered the deadliest earthquake in this hemisphere in over a century on Jan. 12, 2010. Faculty, staff, and other members of the Harvard community, including affiliates of Partners In Health and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, played a pivotal role in the worldwide effort to provide aid.

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    What Haiti needs … now

    Former Haiti Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis said shelter, jobs, and education are the top priorities in the earthquake-ravaged nation.

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    ‘I thought a bomb went off’

    As twilight fell over Port-au-Prince that first terrible night after Haiti’s January earthquake, Louise Ivers watched a strange cloud of dust settle over the city. Stirred by buildings collapsing as the late afternoon quake struck, the cloud was pierced only by sound, a rising chorus of screams from across the capital as the toll became…

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    Portals into Haiti, Chile

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.

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    Transfer ‘ensemble,’ Port-au-Prince

    Transporting patients from one location to another in post-quake Haiti can be a complicated task; often involving barriers of logistics, distance, and language. Sometimes the greatest challenge is a ticking clock.

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    Days to find a doctor

    Patients at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative field hospital at Fond Parisien, Haiti, share their stories of the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake and its aftermath.

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    ‘Building back, better’

    Haitians face a long road for post-earthquake recovery. Some Harvard faculty members will walk it with them.

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    Reflections on a catastrophe

    Assistant Professor of Medicine Louise Ivers shares her story of being caught in the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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    Donations that make a difference

    First grants from Harvard fund to aid Haitian community in helping employees to take care of their families.

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    Researcher receives grant to study Haiti-American emergency preparedness

    Researcher Linda Marc has received a grant from the Harvard School of Public Health to examine public health and emergency preparedness in Haitian-Americans. Marc is based at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard-affiliated health system.

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    Jean at Harvard, with honors

    Musician and producer Wyclef Jean was honored as the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year at Sanders Theatre.

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    Helping heal survivors

    For nearly 30 years, Dr. Richard F. Mollica has been helping people cope with the worst catastrophes imaginable. The longtime director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital has worked with survivors of the brutal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, 9/11 in New York, and, most recently, the earthquake in Haiti.

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    Cambridge resident provides shelter for Haiti’s homeless

    Last week, Cambridge resident Dr. S. Allen Counter, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Foundation, delivered over 150 tents to homeless families in earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince area.

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    Pennies from heaven

    As effort continues to raise funds to aid members of the Harvard community who have ties to Haiti, one group does its part by filling a jar with cash.

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    Reclaiming Port-au-Prince

    Weeks after the earthquake, as populations of Haiti’s tent camps grow, so too does the threat of disease.

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    Working the night shift

    Volunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.

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    Haitian-American artist honored

    Harvard Foundation names Wyclef Jean Artist of the Year. To be honored during Cultural Rhythms Saturday (Feb. 27) at Sanders Theatre.

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    Night shift, Port-au-Prince

    A series of tents now function as Port-au-Prince’s primary hospital, as post-earthquake medical volunteers make ends meet during the night shift.

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    Nearly $37K raised for Haiti

    Harvard students raise almost $37,000 in benefit concert for Haitian relief.

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    A service for Haiti’s sadness

    More than 200 attend Harvard memorial service for those killed in and affected by the Haitian earthquake.

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    The Haitian partnership

    Speakers, including Paul Farmer, discuss how Harvard offshoots can collaborate with Haitians to try to build some stability in the earthquake-battered nation.

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    Memorial service for Haiti

    Harvard University will host a memorial service for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and their loved ones on Thursday (Feb. 11) from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

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    Report from Haiti

    Nearly a month after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, paramedic Anthony Croese looked into the crowd outside a destroyed orphanage near Port-au-Prince and spotted an emaciated baby cradled in his father’s arms.

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    Harvard doctors in the field in Haiti

    In the mountains east of the Haitian capital, a field hospital established by two Harvard Medical School doctors is treating hundreds of victims of the Haitian earthquake. The field hospital in Fond Parisien, near the border with the Dominican Republic, is part of a broader emergency effort in Haiti by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, building…

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    Paul Farmer, Haiti’s One-Man Health Organization

    Farmer, a Harvard-educated medical doctor, operates a clinic in rural Haiti…

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    Hospital rises in the grass

    Sandwiched between mountains and a large lake, a field hospital has sprung up amid the thorny trees and dried grass at Fond Parisien, near the border with the Dominican Republic. The site has become an oasis of medical care and hope in this still-reeling nation, where many thousands died and many more have been injured.

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