Dr. Sheila Davis has said she never could have foreseen how her career would twist and turn, eventually leading her to where she sits as the chief executive officer of Partners In Health—a position she assumed just over one year ago. Now, Davis is in another unforeseen situation as a Read more…
Nearly six years ago, the paths of Dr. Marta Lado and Dr. Regan Marsh crossed in Sierra Leone, during the height of history’s worst Ebola epidemic. Like many clinicians working together on the frontlines of a medical emergency, they began a lifelong friendship and collaboration. Their shared experience fighting a deadly Read more…
When Carmela Sánchez gave birth to her son, Rusbin Gómez, it was not apparent that he was deaf. It was only after he turned one year old that Sánchez and her husband, who live in the coffee-growing Sierra Madre region of Chiapas, Mexico, realized that Rusbin did not respond when Read more…
Despite Kazakhstan’s nationwide lockdown that began in March to contain COVID-19, Partners In Health clinicians have continued to examine and provide treatment—in person and online—for tuberculosis patients enrolled in a groundbreaking clinical trial. Clinicians have had to communicate regularly with police to cross checkpoints and have used their own vehicles Read more…
Partners In Health in Lesotho received a United Nations award on Thursday, September 3rd for its community-based COVID-19 program, with special recognition of PIH’s work to reach people and families in remote, mountainous regions of the country in southern Africa. The recognition came from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Read more…
Ten years after a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Loune Viaud, executive director of Zanmi Lasante–as Partners In Health is known in Haiti, reflects on that fateful day and how she has lead her team to respond in the weeks, months, and years that followed. Dear PIHers, Ten years ago today, Haiti Read more…
By Dr. Sheila DavisChief Executive OfficerPartners In Health PIH CEO Dr. Sheila Davis spoke recently with leaders at Zanmi Lasante, as PIH is known in Haiti, and provides the latest information about the past six weeks of unrest across the country. I’m reaching out to share with you an update Read more…
By Dr. Sheila DavisChief Executive OfficerPartners In Health It has been five years since I went to Liberia and Sierra Leone to launch Partners In Health’s Ebola response. The memories from that first trip are very vivid. I remember sitting on empty planes arriving to airports, where most people were Read more…
Cylian B. Kargbo is planning for her future. “My birthday is coming up!” the 12-going-on-13-year-old from Calaba Town, Sierra Leone, proudly announced, looking ahead a few weeks when she would celebrate with, first and foremost, “pizza!” Further down the line, Cylian has even bigger dreams: “I want to be a Read more…
All over the world, millions of girls are denied basic human rights, such as access to health care and education. Since 2012, October 11 has marked the annual International Day of the Girl, a celebration that advocates for girls’ empowerment and human rights. This year, at Partners In Health, we Read more…