Dr. Paul Farmer to give honorary keynote at 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit
Posted on Jan 29, 2010 by Jon
Dr. Paul Farmer, world renowned physician, medical anthropologist, and Co-Founder of Partners In Health delivered the keynote address at the 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit. You can watch the full keynote address here.
The 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit will take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL from March 4 - 7. This year's Summit will explore will explore the themes Ubuntu and Social Justice: Building global partnership for a more equitable world. Summit discussions and workshops will explore the concept of health as a human right and how to apply this knowledge to community-based health initiatives around the world.
Dr. Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH, 1987), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He began his lifelong commitment to Haiti in 1983 when still a student, working with villages 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 ten sites throughout Haiti, as well as nine other 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 successfully show that quality health care can be delivered in resource-poor settings. Dr Farmer holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was recently appointed the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He is a widely published author of numerous books and articles on health and human rights and social inequality. He is subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder's best seller "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World," which chronicles the development of Dr. Farmer's work in Haiti and beyond.
Dr. Paul Farmer, world renowned physician, medical anthropologist, and Co-Founder of Partners In Health delivered the keynote address at the 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit. You can watch the full keynote address here.
The 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit will take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL from March 4 - 7. This year's Summit will explore will explore the themes Ubuntu and Social Justice: Building global partnership for a more equitable world. Summit discussions and workshops will explore the concept of health as a human right and how to apply this knowledge to community-based health initiatives around the world.
Dr. Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH, 1987), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He began his lifelong commitment to Haiti in 1983 when still a student, working with villages 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 ten sites throughout Haiti, as well as nine other 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 successfully show that quality health care can be delivered in resource-poor settings. Dr Farmer holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and was recently appointed the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. He is a widely published author of numerous books and articles on health and human rights and social inequality. He is subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder's best seller "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World," which chronicles the development of Dr. Farmer's work in Haiti and beyond.
