PIHC Updates
Ophelia Dahl: Haiti 5 Years after the Earthquake
Ophelia Dahl, Co-founder and Executive Director of Partners In Health, reflects on the five-year anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Ophelia Dahl, Co-founder and Executive Director of Partners In Health, reflects on the five-year anniversary of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Dr. Ruth Damuse, oncology program director for Partners In Health’s Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, helped establish PIH/ZL’s formal cancer care in Haiti. Zanmi Lasante’s oncology program started at its hospital in Cange in the Central Plateau and now serves patients at University Hospital in Mirebalais. The hospital sees an Read more…
After the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Students for Partners in Health: Toronto shifted gears to help raise awareness of the disease and what is being done about it. On November 25th, 2014, we hosted our first interdisciplinary speaker panel to shed light on the disease for students at U Read more…
Surgical residents participate in early morning rounds at University Hospital, under the guidance of Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis, director of surgery. Dr. Mac Lee Jean Louis is the director of surgery at University Hospital in Mirebalais, which Partners In Health operates in partnership with Haiti’s Ministry of Health. Born and Read more…
Still healthy today, Adeline Merçon (left), St. Coeur François (middle), and Monèse Gracia (right) were some of the first AIDS patients to begin antiretroviral therapy in 1999 and 2000 through the Partners In Health-supported HIV Equity Initiative. (Photo by Daniel Eisenson/Partners In Health) It was 1998, and Dr. Fernet Léandre Read more…
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Gedeon Ngoga, 34, is a noncommunicable diseases program manager at Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima. I always wanted to become a nurse. As a child, I didn’t know the difference between nurses and doctors — all I knew is that the people in white coats had the power to help Read more…
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…
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…