Tag: PIH

  • Nation & World

    Community contact tracing

    An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.

    4 minutes
    Coronavirus pandemic reported on the map of Massachusetts.
  • Nation & World

    Cancer care comes to Rwanda

    Paul Farmer, chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and co-founder of Partners In Health, announced the opening of Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence, which will serve as the first national cancer referral facility in rural Rwanda.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard responds to Haiti crisis

    A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.

    5 minutes