Paul Farmer: Rethinking Health and Human Rights

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.

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[elfslay]

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

[abriefdescription]

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

[GeorgeZapo]

Our aspirations, research, training, and hard work can help bring social justice and sustainability if we keep going on. What are we are doing to rebuild public infrastructures, provide training, and continue our research? What aspires us to reduce social discrepancies? There are people who are interested in equity of access to health care. There are people who want to rebuild peoples faith in public health and restore life. People are coming back from the dead.

[swank98199]

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

[swank98199]

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.

[nuppaluppagus]

@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.