Annual Harvard Speaker Program

*POSTPONED*

Due to the circumstances in Haiti, which Dr. Farmer is intimately involved with, we regret to inform you that this event has been postponed. Dr. Farmer is looking forward to addressing the Harvard Club of Miami this membership year so this event will be rescheduled soon.

If you have already purchased tickets for this event, your tickets will be valid for use on the new date. If for any reason, the newly scheduled date is not convenient, we will gladly issue a refund to you at that time. However, if you prefer to receive a full refund immediately, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@harvardmiami.org.


The Harvard Club of Miami
is pleased to invite you to our annual Harvard Speaker Program with

 Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
 Medical Anthropologist and Physician,
 Harvard Medical School
Saturday, January 30, 2010
7:30 PM

 who will discuss
 Breaking The Cycle of Poverty and Disease

hosted by Jim and Lynda Esserman

at the home of
Ron and Charlene Esserman
Hughes Cove, 3303 Devon Court
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Click here for directions

Cost for this event:
Current Member and 1 Guest:
$40.00 per person (prepaid)

Non-Members and At-the-Door:
$50.00 per person

Your non-refundable pre-payment must be received no later than Monday, January 25.
 

 


To pay by check:
It is extremely important that you email admin@harvardmiami.org or call (305) 819-8383 to RSVP. Next, please mail your payment to Harvard Club of Miami, c/o Event Processing, PO Box 1852, Buford, GA 30515.
  
 

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is also Chair, and a founding director of Partners In Health, an international non-profit 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. Farmer’s work draws primarily on active clinical practice and focuses on community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource-poor settings, health and human rights, and the role of social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. He is Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and served for ten years as medical director of a charity hospital, L’Hôpital Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. Along with his colleagues at BWH, in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at HMS, and in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Malawi, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis). Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor settings.

Dr. Farmer has written extensively about health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. He is the author of Pathologies of Power, Infections and Inequalities, The Uses of Haiti, and AIDS and Accusation. In addition, he is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDS and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. Dr. Farmer is the recipient of the Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Salk Institute Medal for Health and Humanity, the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association’s Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, the Heinz Award for the Human Condition, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award in recognition of his work. Dr. Farmer is the subject of Pulitzer Prizewinner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2003).