Word: joias
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...shown in the power of accompaniment.The event opened with a somber tone as three speakers gave a tribute to Dr. Josue Augustin, the director of surgery for PIH’s partner organization in Haiti, whose murder on August 31st, 2009 remains unsolved.Mourning the loss of Augustin, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer for PIH described him as “a gifted surgeon and an exceptional human being...the only surgeon in Haiti who would treat anyone, from anywhere, at anytime, regardless of their ability to pay.” Mukherjee said PIH hopes to continue his dream...
...founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School Professors Paul Farmer and Jim Y. Kim, who was recently selected as president of Dartmouth, and three other individuals. The event began at noon at St. Paul Church on Mt. Auburn Street with a speech from HMS assistant professor Joia Mukherjee, medical director of PIH. The talk detailed Haiti’s historical struggles for freedom, first from slavery, and now from poverty. “Haiti still struggles for liberation, and PIH’s insistence on a better model for healthcare is an example of that,” said...
...experts to collaborate. “We discovered that there was this tremendous concentration of people at Harvard working on HIV and AIDS in Brazil. A lot of these people haven’t communicated with each other before,” he said. Assistant Professor of Medicine Joia Mukherjee emphasized the role of the Brazilian government, and specifically the universal healthcare and free antiretroviral drugs it provides. “Brazil was twenty years ahead of where most places are today,” she said. Paulo R. Teixeira, former director of the national STD/AIDS program of the Brazilian...
...Rather than focus on something very simple that would be in-and-out, he asked people there what they really needed,” says Joia Mukherjee, the medical director of Partners in Health (PIH), the non-profit medical organization which Farmer and close colleague Jim Y. Kim founded in 1987. “And they said, ‘We need a hospital, because we’re very ill.’ So he built the hospital...
...feel very excited to have advocates like Jeffery Sachs," said Joia S. Mukerjee of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "More spending for our patients will be a godsend...