Paul Farmer: Rethinking Health and Human Rights

Posted by admin on August 18th, 2010 and filed under health and nutrition | 5 Comments »

The Pfizer “Moments in Leadership” Distinguished Health Leadership Speaker Series presents this talk and reception featuring Dr. Paul Farmer, recipient of the 2009 UC Berkeley International Public Health Hero Award.

Using the framework of human right to health, Dr. Farmer will speak about:
-Community-based care to improve health outcomes in settings of great poverty
–Disease specific interventions to strengthen primary health care

Dr. Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a founding director of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmers work draws primarily on active clinical practice and focuses on community-based treatment strategies for diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor, health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in determining the distribution and outcomes of infectious diseases.

Duration : 1:20:24


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5 Responses

  1. swank98199 Says:

    He looks so …
    He looks so terrified during the Q and A. Isn’t it apparent that he has no idea what he’s talking about?

  2. swank98199 Says:

    I cannot believe …
    I cannot believe that this guy talks for nearly an hour and twenty minutes and doesn’t say one thing. He is like a child with a short attention span. He used this entire time to promote “what” he “is” to everyone and no one in particular. The same way he proposes medicine should be practiced.

  3. nuppaluppagus Says:

    @abriefdescription …
    @abriefdescription i agree, it blows my mind that there are people who don’t think this way, that this is actually an “argument.” he’s my hero.

  4. abriefdescription Says:

    He is amazing. And …
    He is amazing. And yet, the things he argues for are things any reasonable person should argue for. So, you know, wake the up.

  5. elfslay Says:

    THIS GUY IS SO COOL …
    THIS GUY IS SO COOL! So much respect I have for him.

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