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artners in Health gathered local residents and worldwide PIH workers on Saturday for the 16th Annual Thomas J. White Symposium to “celebrate the year’s achievements and strategize for the future,” according to Ophelia Dahl, PIH Executive Director. PIH??a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit organization with partners in Latin America, Africa, and Russia—was founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack. They were later joined by Dahl and Jim Y. Kim, who recently left Harvard to become the President of Dartmouth University.The symposium brought...
...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 W. Gerald McElroy, a current Yale senior who co-founded the walk with Fritsche while a sophomore in Fritsche’s French class at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School...
...into play when Graduate School of Design architecture student Michael P. Murphy attended a lecture by Medical School professor Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH). Murphy was shocked to find that there were no architects assisting Farmer in designing the modern and sanitary hospitals integral to PIH??s mission. Previously, the only hospital design had come from Farmer’s amateur napkin sketches. These napkins and lack of real architectural support inspired Murphy to get involved, spearheading a movement with fellow GSD students to build an innovative hospital prototype in Rwanda...
...lots of times people turn away because they feel there’s nothing we can do, it’s something that’s always going to be because it’s human nature,” says Heidi Behforouz, who has worked with Farmer on PIH??s only domestic project, in inner-city Boston. “I think Paul expects more of human nature...
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