Tag: Partners In Health

  • Arts & Culture

    The artistic side of science

    The new Transit Gallery in Gordon Hall at Harvard Medical School lets students and staffers appreciate the fine arts while getting from place to place.

  • Nation & World

    Accompanying the underserved

    “The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.

  • Campus & Community

    Racing to find her passion

    Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.

  • Nation & World

    Expanding student learning abroad

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced grants to six faculty members who are designing new international experiences for undergraduates, from new summer school programs in Kenya to studies in global health to other programs in Italy, Argentina, and Germany.

  • Campus & Community

    More than a game

    The Harvard men’s soccer team and the Haitian National Team played to a 0-0 tie before more than 11,000 fans at Harvard Stadium Sunday afternoon. Following regulation, the Crimson and Haiti settled the contest in penalty kicks, with the Haitians winning 4-1.

  • Nation & World

    Making a difference

    Across the University, public service programs are thriving, reinforcing Harvard’s founding mission of providing assistance to others.

  • Nation & World

    Empowering women in Africa

    On a visit to Harvard to participate in a two-day gender conference sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda discussed issues facing her African country, including women’s health, education, and the importance of promoting women leaders.

  • Nation & World

    Progress in Haiti ‘painfully slow’

    A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Harvard faculty members reflect on work done there and the difficult job that remains.

  • Campus & Community

    Paul Farmer appointed University Professor

    Harvard names humanitarian leader Paul Farmer a University Professor, awarding him its highest faculty honor.

  • Health

    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.

  • Health

    Where surgery is lacking

    Authorities on global health and surgery gathered Nov. 5 to discuss how to address the lack of trained surgeons and adequate operating rooms in developing nations.

  • Nation & World

    A new program to shake up education

    The first class of students in Harvard’s newest doctoral program gets ready to help transform public schools in America.

  • Nation & World

    Urgent matters

    According to a paper to be published online in the Lancet on Aug. 16, the international community must discard the notion that cancer is a “disease of the rich” and approach it as a global priority.

  • Campus & Community

    Partners to build Haiti hospital

    Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there.

  • Health

    Money not cure-all for health care

    Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.

  • Health

    ‘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…

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Nation & World

    ‘Better’ – A story of survival

    Among the millions of “Haiti earthquake stories” from January 12, 2010, here is one.

  • Nation & World

    Volunteer base camp, Port-au-Prince

    Caring for volunteers who care for Haiti’s sick and wounded is a full-time, round-the-clock job, requiring the barest of necessities.

  • Nation & World

    ‘Building back, better’

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

  • Health

    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.

  • Nation & World

    Reclaiming Port-au-Prince

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

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    Nearly $37K raised for Haiti

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

  • Nation & World

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    Student concert to aid Haiti

    Harvard’s student artists, in collaboration with the OfA, pull together to produce a two-hour benefit on Feb. 12 in Sanders Theatre.

  • Nation & World

    Medical workers gain momentum

    Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard mobilizes relief fund

    Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.