Dr. Kerling Israel is Director of Medical Education for Partners In Health / Zanmi Lasante, and is Program Director of PIH/ZL’s Family Medicine Residency program at Hospital Saint Nicolas in St. Marc. This summer, Dr. Israel visited Toronto to take part in the TIPS-FM course (Toronto International Program in Strengthening Read more…
On June 10, 2014, Partners In Health Canada and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto hosted a conversation and live webcast with Dr. Paul Farmer on Social Justice and the Movement for Global Health Equity. That conversation can be viewed in its entirety Read more…
Daphroza Nyiranzoga, 59, is a single mother of five who lives in Rwanda’s Butaro District. Below is an edited transcript of an interview in which she reflects on her experience with Partners In Health and discusses the importance of community health workers. I found that I had HIV when I was Read more…
BOSTON — An advance team from Boston-based Partners In Health heads for Ebola-stricken Liberia Monday. Four doctors, including co-founder Paul Farmer, and two operations staff will lay the groundwork for an ambitious two- to three-year project that will require well over 100 volunteer doctors, nurses, lab techs and public health Read more…
Dr. Paul Farmer — co-founder of the non-profit organization Partners In Health and one of Bill Gates’ global health heroes — stopped by the University of Toronto on June 10th to chat about everything from Haiti and health equity to the growing trend of “voluntourism” in the developing world.
This week, Partners In Health Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer visited Toronto, and his passion for health as a human right was heard right across the country. Partners In Health Canada and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of Toronto hosted a conversation and live webcast with Read more…
Thomas Murphy is a 4th year Bachelor of Science major at University of New Brunswick. He contacted PIH Canada in early 2014 with an interest in starting a Students for PIH Canada chapter at UNB. We knew right away that he’d make a great addition to the network, but we Read more…
If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no doubt that the health systems in place could contain and then eliminate the disease. Hospitals would isolate suspected cases. Health workers would be outfitted with proper Read more…
Dr. Jean-Louis Willy Fils is a medical resident in every sense of the word. He’s training at University Hospital in Mirebalais to become a surgeon, living in a residence hall on the hospital campus and working about 80 hours every week. Fils is one of 14 residents—University’s Hospital’s first class—who Read more…
Students for Partners In Health Canada began in early 2012, when Katie Cundale established the inaugural Students for Partners In Health club at McGill University. Later adding the role of national Student Outreach Coordinator, Katie provided support and guidance to all the clubs, and served as an interface between Students Read more…