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Paul Farmer.

Rethinking health and human rights

Paul Farmer awarded Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture

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DateDecember 16, 2020

Kamala Harris, Harris, President-elect Joe Biden.

After a hard election, the real work begins

Looking for hints of future prospects in the past and predicting what lies ahead

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DateNovember 8, 2020November 10, 2020

Facui and Farmer in Zoom talk.

Vaccine close, but it likely won’t be a silver bullet

Fauci, Farmer, and Kim discuss coronavirus lessons so far

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DateNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Salim Abdool Karim.

International forum cites strong government response as key in battle against COVID

Containment works, but a vaccine is still needed

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DateOctober 7, 2020

A new mission in Haiti

Christophe Millien will help women overcome a ‘socially malignant illness’

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DateMay 25, 2020May 26, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic reported on the map of Massachusetts.

Community contact tracing

International epidemic expertise to help Massachusetts respond to COVID-19

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DateApril 13, 2020April 14, 2020

Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, Ophelia Dahl, Paul Farmer and Dean Nitin Nohria

Film shows how doctors can make a difference

After screening, Partners In Health founders discuss data, leadership, and hope

DateMarch 4, 2019March 6, 2019

Paul Farmer.

‘To be horrified by inequality and early death and not have any kind of plan for responding — that would not work for me’

Paul Farmer on Partners In Health, ‘Harvard-Haiti,’ and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life

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DateMay 21, 2018September 8, 2020

Framed by large photos set up for the event, Summon Chaudhury, left, and Julie Rioux attend the global health forum at the T.H. Chan School.

‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health

U.S. needs to remain a key leader in efforts to curb disease, unsafe conditions, panelists say

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DateOctober 27, 2017October 27, 2017

For a MOOC on global health equity, a small HarvardX production crew traveled to Rwanda (pictured) and Haiti to bring back personal stories from experts who are often not given a voice: the people directly affected by healthcare policies.

MOOCs on the move

HarvardX not only serves many students overseas, it’s creating content there too

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DateSeptember 17, 2015April 16, 2019

Hilda Matos at her home in Palao, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, where she awaits the visit of a community health worker from Socios En Salud, Partners In Health’s sister organization in Peru. The worker makes sure Matos follows her treatment for XDR-TB, a type of tuberculosis extremely resistant to medication.

In Peru, progress against TB

Branch of Partners In Health has helped reduce deaths through careful protocols

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DateAugust 31, 2015

The main entrance to the National Institute of Cancer of Mexico is at No. 22 Avenue San Fernando in Mexico City. Its new wing illustrates the enhanced access to treatment provided by Seguro Popular.

Escalating the fight against breast cancer

With Harvard’s help, Mexico makes inroads among the most vulnerable

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DateJanuary 28, 2015July 9, 2019

During a Harvard-sponsored forum at First Parish in Cambridge, Professor Evelynn Hammonds (left) drew attention to the fact that epidemics “pull the covers off” the ways that the poor, vulnerable, and sick are perceived. Sharing her concerns was Professor Paul Farmer: “If we had the staff, stuff, space, and systems, we could get people earlier into a place where they could get supportive care.” To date, most Americans stricken with Ebola have survived because they were “scooped out” of miserable conditions, he noted.

‘Epidemics are optional’

More medical care could greatly reduce Ebola fatalities, Farmer says

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DateDecember 10, 2014March 6, 2019

The Partners In Health advance Ebola response team visits the Martha Tubman Memorial Hospital in Zwedru, Liberia.

Confronting Ebola

Nonprofits with Harvard ties launch collaboration to fight epidemic

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DateSeptember 30, 2014March 29, 2019

Paul Farmer (photo 1), Harvard’s Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, spoke about liberation theology and his latest book during at a discussion at the First Church in Cambridge with David Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, and Divinity School student Lauren Taylor (photo 2).

A faith in global care

Paul Farmer, Partners In Health founder, was inspired by liberation theology

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DateFebruary 12, 2014March 15, 2019

Three members of the Tech in the World team work at their computers at the APHFTA offices in Dar es Salaam on Christmas Day. From left are Harvard undergraduates Salvatore Rinchiera, Joshua Lee, and Brandon Liu.

Tech solutions for Tanzanian health care

Undergrads work in Dar es Salaam to upgrade computer records

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DateJanuary 15, 2013

“It is a social justice issue,” said Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health David Williams of health disparities in minority communities, at a University-wide symposium at the Center for Government and International Studies’ Tsai Auditorium Thursday.

Closing the care gap

Health disparity between U.S. whites, minorities stubborn but treatable

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DateOctober 12, 2012July 19, 2019

Earlier this year, Harvard Medical School's Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health (left), was joined by former President Bill Clinton (right) marking the new Mirebalais Hospital in Haiti. On July 18, Clinton rejoined Farmer for the inauguration of the Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence in Rwanda. The Clinton Global Initiative partnered with others to sponsor the first national cancer referral facility in rural Rwanda.

Cancer care comes to Rwanda

Harvard affiliates join in opening of first cancer referral facility

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DateJuly 18, 2012July 9, 2019

Harvard Divinity School student Sonya Soni's views on faith broadened while at the University. “Now, I wonder how I could separate spirituality from social justice,” she said. Soni is deferring med school, but taking her lessons with her everywhere: from the Indian orphanage her great-grandmother founded, to spending a year as a health policy adviser to Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.

Family values, in an orphanage

At the Divinity School, Soni built on a service ethos that spans generations

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DateMay 24, 2012

During the inaugural “One Harvard: Lectures that Last,” Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson said, People don’t know what may happen with
climate change, but “that means we are running a roulette wheel, that we are running the risk of seriously destabilizing the world’s climate.” Henderson was one of a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s 12 graduate and professional Schools at the event.

Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

Dozen speakers from Harvard Schools outline concerns, possible solutions

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DateApril 4, 2012July 25, 2019

Ken Menkhaus, professor of political science at Davidson College, said it was profoundly disappointing to be discussing another Somali famine, after he worked in the country during the 1991-92 one. Each famine, he said, has distinct characteristics, and this one unfolded in slow motion over the past couple of years.

In the end, Somali famine preventable

Panel cites man-made factors in making natural disaster worse

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DateFebruary 7, 2012July 26, 2019

Sara Stulac (right), consults with colleagues at the Rwinkwavu Hospital in Eastern Rwanda. Stulac, who is a Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine and the director of pediatrics for Partners In Health, has designed a program that brings together Rwandan physicians with Boston-based pediatric oncologist.

Harvard professors partner in unique approach

U.S.-based and Rwandan physicians work to treat cancer in children

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DateDecember 12, 2011March 18, 2019

Assistant Professor of Medicine Louise Ivers was awarded the Ashford Medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
For more than eight years, Ivers has worked in Haiti, leading efforts to implement health and social justice programs, and expand clinical services. Ivers (left) following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

HMS’s Louise Ivers honored

Recognized with Bailey K. Ashford Medal for work in Haiti

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DateDecember 8, 2011March 18, 2019

Swanee Hunt, the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, was the U.S. ambassador to Austria during the Bosnian War. Through a series of emotional vignettes, she recounts her diplomatic missions, as well as the impact of war through the eyes of the Bosnians she encountered in her book "Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security."

While you were away

A roundup of recent books by Harvard faculty

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DateSeptember 1, 2011March 25, 2019

“Expertise alone will not solve the difficult problems that we face today,” Paul Farmer said in his Commencement address at Harvard Kennedy School. What graduates must now learn is how to work with communities on the ground to solve systemic problems.

Accompanying the underserved

Good policy is made on the ground, Farmer tells HKS graduates

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DateMay 26, 2011July 10, 2019

$Skier Marguerite Thorp '11 headed to Africa after stress fractures forced her out of the Winter Olympics U.S. ski cross team. “It was the best Plan B ever,” she said of her decision not to return immediately to Harvard. “I have no idea how I would have stayed with pre-med if I hadn’t seen the outlet of working internationally and working in settings of poverty.”$

Racing to find her passion

Her skiing halted by injury, Thorp expands passion for public health

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DateMay 26, 2011June 26, 2019

Harvard Professor David Cutler used his grants to create a global health “boot camp” in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute, which prepares students for international experiences. Michael Zhang '12 (right) was one of the participants in the Harvard Global Health Institute's International Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program in Mbarara, Uganda.

Expanding student learning abroad

President’s Innovation Fund fuels an array of faculty ideas, options

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DateMay 9, 2011July 18, 2019

Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr. of the Macedonia Church of God in Springfield, Mass., speaks to the Harvard students who helped rebuild his church after it was torched on the night of Barack Obama's election. The students traveled to Springfield on the Phillips Brooks House Association's Alternative Spring Break, which promotes public service.

Making a difference

Across the University, public service programs are thriving

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DateApril 6, 2011July 19, 2019

Paul Farmer (center) has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest distinction for a faculty member. “Paul Farmer is best known to the public as a pioneering humanitarian,” President Drew Faust said in announcing the appointment. “But among scholars he is equally well-known for his research and writing, which have crossed boundaries between the social sciences and biomedical research and married theory and practice to forge a new approach to global health."

Paul Farmer appointed University Professor

Harvard bestows top faculty honor on humanitarian leader, scholar

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DateDecember 16, 2010July 8, 2019

" ... Harvard has helped me make the connections between disciplines. I no longer think simply of my course on the biology of longevity because I bridge its ideas to my classes on nutrition, sociology, and even organic chemistry," said Marcel Moran.

Harvard’s lasting effect

A senior reflects on what he’s learned, including about himself

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DateNovember 18, 2010April 18, 2019

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