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The Economist
April 27, 2018
But in Kono, with the help of Partners in Health, an American charity, Dr Barrie is trying to buck the trend. This region of 500,000 people has just two doctors who are paid by the government. That makes the job of Mabel Konoma, a community health worker, even more vital. Every morning she visits patientsÃâà...
The Economist
April 27, 2018
... the founder of Partners in Health, the American health charity, noted in 2008 that surgery is the “neglected stepchild” of global health. It remains neglected, for several reasons. One is an image problem, notes Justine Davies, one of the authors of the Lancet report: surgery is seen as an expensive luxury.
Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald
April 27, 2018
Church “junk” sales, testing eyes and ears in the Freeport public schools, consistent volunteer at Freeport Community Services and the annual Partners In Health tag sale in Camden. A constant visitor to friends, neighbors and passersby in need, Sally seemed always to be ready with the right gift at the rightÃâà...
Men's Journal
April 26, 2018
Then, that December, he heard a talk by Paul Farmer, a doctor who'd devoted his life to healing the global poor through his nonprofit, Partners in Health. In communities of great need, Farmer said, architects are scarce. His own clinics were haphazardly designed; in 19 years he'd never used an architect, and it showed.
New Vision
April 25, 2018
Health consultant Alex Coutinho (R) talks to Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda as state minister of health Sarah Opendi (L) and Baylor Uganda executive director (2nd R) Adeodata Kekitinwa look on after the launch of the two-day Health Leadership Conference at the Mestil Hotel in Kampala on April25Ãâà...
Markets Insider
April 25, 2018
... and Ferit Sahenk P'20, Chairman of Dogus Holdings, and leading humanitarians, including Paul Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health. Highlights also included the presentation of Babson's newest Lewis Institute Community Changemaker honorees—Leila Janah, "Give Work" Founder and CEOÃâà...
Harvard Medical School
April 25, 2018
It was a photographic retrospective of the work Partners In Health had done," Rodriquez said. "They asked us if we wanted it here at HMS." Rodriguez said she and her colleagues in the space planning office, where she worked at the time, thought the newly-renovated hallway would be the perfect setting toÃâà...
Durham Herald Sun
April 25, 2018
However, this universal goal can only be achieved if global health funding remains a priority in the FY19 budget. We at the Duke Engage chapter of the Partners in Health organization implore our Senate representation, Senator Richard Burr and Senator Thom Tillis, to protect the Global Fund and supportÃâà...
Greensboro News & Record
April 23, 2018
The upcoming 2018-19 season will start with political strategists David Axelrod and Karl Rove on Sept. 13. Other scheduled speakers are NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Oct. 23), former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Nov. 15), Partners in Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer (Feb. 19) andÃâà...
The Observer
April 14, 2018
Under their revised constitution, UDC has also recognized two new student organizations: Partners in Health Engage and Period @ CWRU. On UDC's recent elections, Mistry said they “ran smoothly.” “It's great to see so many young leaders rising through the ranks and trying to make a difference,” saidÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 13, 2018
Foodgrains Bank member Presbyterian World Service & Development, alongside Partners in Health Haiti, is supporting the establishment of a mobile clinic with community health workers to identify and treat malnourished children under the age of five. Children with acute malnutrition are being providedÃâà...
Durham Herald Sun
April 13, 2018
We applaud Congressman David Price for recently holding a panel that discussed how global health work supports 26,000 jobs, creates $1.6 billion in wages, and contributes $3.7 billion to the economy in North Carolina. Duke's Partners in Health Engage encourages Congressman Price to support theÃâà...
AdVantageNEWS.com
April 12, 2018
The Illinois Department of Public Health is announcing the launch of its Opioid Data Dashboard, a way to access data on opioid overdoses and deaths. “The Opioid Data Dashboard is an innovative way to share information with our partners in health care, government, community organizations, lawÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
April 6, 2018
... * Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. It's not just diseases that kill; deaths are also caused by the social, political and economic inequalities that pervade our world. As we mark World Health Day on April 7, we must continue looking for waysÃâà...
Science Daily
April 6, 2018
Partnering organizations in this study included Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation National Eye Program, Sierra Leone Association of Ebola Survivors, World Health Organization, Partners in Health, Christian Blind Mission International, Tulane University School of Medicine and many others.
Burlington Hawk Eye
April 6, 2018
The event, organized by the Workforce Partners in Health Occupations Team and hosted by SCC, began with a career expo, which featured 20-minute presentation sessions put on by nine professionals representing seven career pathways — nursing, emergency medical services, respiratory therapy,Ãâà...
PatientEngagementHIT.com
April 4, 2018
But at Community Health Choice, a Texas-based healthcare company, that shift toward healthcare consumerism is part in parcel with serving their patients as partners in health. Community Health Choice began as a medical care group working to make healthcare cheaper and more accessible for childrenÃâà...
The Rider News
April 4, 2018
Sponsored by Rider's Health Studies Institute, the event featured a lecture on global health care by guest speaker Joia Mukherjee, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the chief medical officer of Partners in Health (PIH). Mukherjee began her presentation by reading anÃâà...
University at Buffalo Reporter
April 2, 2018
Global Health Day wraps up with a screening of the documentary “Bending the Arc” from 3-5:30 p.m. in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts, North Campus. The film follows the doctors and activists that founded Partners in Health, on the ground in Haiti, Peru and Rwanda, in their fight for universalÃâà...
University at Buffalo Reporter
March 31, 2018
A screening of “Bending the Arc,” an acclaimed documentary on the global health movement, as part of Global Health Day. The film follows the doctors and activists that founded Partners in Health, on the ground in Haiti, Peru and Rwanda, in their fight for universal health equity and the right to health for all.
Variety
March 31, 2018
Los Angeles' FYF Festival today announced the lineup for its 15th anniversary edition — and its first since founder Sean Carlson left the fold in the wake of sexual misconduct charges. Florence & the Machine and Janet Jackson will headline on Saturday and Sunday night respectively, while the lineup alsoÃâà...
TCU 360
March 24, 2018
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health and professor at Harvard Medical School, has been working to provide medical care for impoverished countries for more than 30 years. He says he wants to stay optimistic about every patient because a small group of people can make a big difference.
Harvard Medical School
March 23, 2018
Peabody Society student Christopher Calahan, who worked with researchers in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and at the University of Global Health Equity and Partners In Health, said that his was an implementation project, helping to develop a medical education program forÃâà...
goskagit.com
March 23, 2018
For example, the first community-based care program for TB that is resistant to multiple drugs, initiated by Partners in Health in Peru in the mid-1990s, had cure rates exceeding 80 percent; overall, Partners in Health has treated more than 10,500 people with drug-resistant TB, with more than 75 percentÃâà...
CNN
March 22, 2018
Alice Han is an instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto's department of obstetrics and gynecology. She previously served in Rwanda with Partners in Health as the women's health district clinical adviser.
The Hub at Johns Hopkins
March 14, 2018
When Tara Loyd, MPH '08, arrived at Hopkins in 2007, she had a plan. She was 30 years old and fresh from a position in Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, where she'd volunteered with Partners In Health and co-founded a safehouse and outreach program for children orphaned by HIV. Loyd came toÃâà...
WBUR
March 13, 2018
After seeing pictures of the mural she had just completed, Farmer invited True to work with Partners In Health on a new hospital they were building in the central valley of Haiti in the town of Mirebalais. Over the next two years, True designed and created, with the help of a team of Haitians and visiting artists,Ãâà...
News at Rider
March 9, 2018
On March 28, Rider University will host Dr. Joia Mukherjee, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and chief medical officer of Partners In Health to discuss “Health delivery: a paradigm shift for the poor." Mukherjee's presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the DiDonato Family Lecture Hall (ScienceÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 9, 2018
Three years ago, one of us worked in Liberia and Sierra Leone with the medical nonprofit Partners In Health during the organization's response to Ebola. Many of our team's senior doctors hailed from Haiti. Volunteers on the front lines of the fight, they arrived with not only the skills to treat the sick but alsoÃâà...
Samaritan Mag
March 7, 2018
Partners in Health's mission is “to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most inÃâà...
Contagionlive.com
March 7, 2018
... 2 active formal clinical trials: the ongoing PRACTECAL (or Pragmatic Clinical Trial for a More Effective Concise and Less Toxic treatment regimen for DR-TB) study, working in conjunction with the Stop TB Partnership, and the EndTB project, in partnership with Partners in Health and other organizations.
Labmate Online
February 28, 2018
Six sites across the UK have been awarded Ãâã30 million by Health Data Research UK to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science. Each site has world-class expertise; a track record in using health data to derive new knowledge, scientific discovery and insight; works in closeÃâà...
The Heights
February 28, 2018
On Tuesday evening, theology professor Rev. Ken Himes had a discussion with Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health and current chair of the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard University, at an event called “Accompaniment in Practice: a Conversation with Paul Farmer.
Poughkeepsie Journal
February 27, 2018
The Vassar Haiti Project's sixth annual Art and Soul reception and fundraiser will pay tribute to Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, co-founder of Partners in Health, a non-profit organization with programs on five continents. Farmer is acting chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HarvardÃâà...
Drgnews
February 26, 2018
The South Dakota Departments of Tribal Relations, Social Services and Health have partnered this year to host “Partners in Health” State-Tribal Relations Events tomorrow (Tues.) and Wednesday in Pierre. Secretary of Tribal Relations Steve Emery says tomorrow's listening sessions bring state, tribal andÃâà...
The Rider News
February 13, 2018
12 in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater, tells the story of Paul Farmer, Jim Young Kim and Ophelia Dahl — founders of Partners in Health — and their diligent efforts to fight deadly diseases in countries within Africa and South America. The screening was presented by the Health Studies Institute at Rider,Ãâà...
CMSD News Bureau
December 31, 1999
Nurses and nursing students tested Michael R. White kindergarten students for lead poisoning as part of the Partners in Health screening initiative. ... Friday marked the launch of the Partners in Health lead screening program, which aims to reach all children ages 3-5 at four CMSD schools this year andÃâà...
Brandeis University
December 31, 1999
The documentary, “Bending the Arc,” chronicles the rise of Partners in Health, a Boston-based non-profit that works to bring quality healthcare to poverty-stricken parts of the world. Following the screening, middle school and high school students connected with hiring managers from local non-profits at aÃâà...
IISD Reporting Services
December 31, 1999
On the sidelines of CSW 62, participants considered ways to enhance integration, linkages and synergies between SDG targets 3.4 (noncommunicable diseases) and 5.6 (sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights). The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, theÃâà...
CMSD News Bureau
December 31, 1999
Friday marked the launch of the Partners in Health lead screening program, which aims to reach all children ages 3-5 at four CMSD schools this year and eventually expand across the entire District. Nurses from CMSD and the Cleveland Clinic, along with nursing students from the Case Western ReserveÃâà...
Kenyon Collegian
December 31, 1999
The work was, at first, a struggle. But by “borrowing” medicine from Boston hospitals and taking weekend flights to Cange, Haiti, from Harvard Medical School, Paul Farmer and his team were able to start the international nonprofit, Partners in Health, and save hundreds of lives. As part of the InternationalÃâà...
Planet Princeton
December 31, 1999
The idea of health care as a human right is widely debated, but Joia Mukherjee, who has been at the forefront of the fight against the HIV and AIDS epidemic as chief medical officer of Partners in Health, said that it is a basic necessity. Mukherjee discussed her work with Partners in Health, an internationalÃâà...
Business West (blog)
December 31, 1999
She also has served as a senior health and policy advisor to Partners in Health (PIH) as a member of the PIH executive leadership team, working to support the implementation of strategy across 10 countries. In addition to expanding access to healthcare for the poor, Ivers has contributed to publishedÃâà...
Country 103.9 WRBI
December 31, 1999
Margaret Mary's Health Foundation was established in 2012 to raise money to enhance hospital programs, services, technology and educational opportunities, and to engage the community as partners in health improvement. The Foundation's role is to receive, manage and disburse funds to meet currentÃâà...
CMSD News Bureau
December 31, 1999
Nurses and nursing students tested Michael R. White kindergarten students for lead poisoning as part of the Partners in Health screening initiative. ... Friday marked the launch of the Partners in Health lead screening program, which aims to reach all children ages 3-5 at four CMSD schools this year andÃâà...
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