Haiti after the Earthquake

Speaker: 
Paul Farmer
 
25 Aug 2011
 
7:00 PM
 
Stephens Auditorium

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Global humanitarian, medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit organization whose medical services, research and advocacy activities have shown that high-quality health care can be delivered in resource-poor settings. Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent book is Haiti after the Earthquake. He is chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti. Dr. Farmer is also the subject of the book Mountains beyond Mountains by Pulitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder. Part of the World Affairs Series.
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[b]Donations may be made to Partners In Health online at [url=http://www.pih.org/pages/support-the-work-of-pih/]Support Partners In Health[/url][/b] Additional books by Paul Farmer's include: [i]Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor The Uses of Haiti Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame[/i]. Dr. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award from the American Medical Association, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and, with his Partners in Health colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor's degree in 1982 from Duke University and his MD and a PhD in anthropology simultaneously in 1990 from Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. _________________ This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.