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Approaches to Expanding Mental Health Care Reported in Science Magazine
14 May 2012
The report, Who Needs Psychiatrists?, appearing in the March 15, 2012, issue of Science features the work of Byron and Mary-Jo Good and others to develop strategies for improving mental health care in developing countries where psychiatrists are scarce. A slide show accompanies the report.Rwanda Team Shows Strength of Community-Based HIV Treatment
07 May 2012
The Global Health Delivery Partnership Rwanda team published an important report documenting the strength of accompaniment and its effect on clinical outcomes. The report, "Excellent Clinical Outcomes and High Retention in Care Among Adults in a Community-Based HIV Treatment Program in Rural Rwanda," appears in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (Vol 59, No 3).Kerry Announces Global Health Service Partnership
13 Mar 2012
Vanessa Kerry, MD, director of the GHSM Program on Global Public Policy and Social Change and executive director of the Global Health Service Corps, announced the launch of the Global Health Service Partnership with the Peace Corps and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The partnership will place doctors, nurses, and other health professionals in developing countries as medical educators with the Peace Corps Response program.Global Health Delivery Course Launches in Rwanda
22 Feb 2012
On February 19, 2012, 41 faculty and students from Burundi, Haiti, Rwanda, and the United States gathered at the Rwinkwavu Hospital Training Center to launch the Global Health Delivery course, led by Harvard Medical School faculty in conjunction with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda. Dr. Agnès Binagwaho, Rwanda’s Minister of Health and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, described the course as an example of “authentic and effective capacity building for the health sector, meant to break the vicious cycle of poverty and disease.”Famine in the Horn of Africa Talks to be Presented Feb 6
26 Jan 2012
The Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change and the Committee on African Studies present a series of brief talks followed by discussion on "Famine in the Horn of Africa" on Monday, February 6, 2012, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge. These talks are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Click the heading link for full details.ASTMH Awards Louise Ivers the Ashford Medal
09 Dec 2011
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awarded the Bailey K. Ashford Medal to Louise Ivers on December 4 to recognize her service as a clinician and contributor to strengthening health systems in Haiti over the past eight years and particularly for her leadership in responding to the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, and the cholera outbreak that came in its wake. Paul Farmer presented the award as co-founder of Partners In Health.GHSM Contributes to The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
17 Oct 2011
GHSM faculty members Giuseppe Raviola, Anne Becker, and Paul Farmer contributed to recent commentaries published in: The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health 2011. Vikram Patel, Pamela Collins, Theresa Betancourt, and Myron Belfer are among the many authors contributing to the series.Ivers writes on health system strengthening in Haiti
15 Jul 2011
The American Journal of Public Health [June 2011:101(6)] published the editorial by Louise Ivers*: “Strengthening the Health System While Investing in Haiti.” In this editorial, Dr. Ivers describes “how health programs that were successful before the [January 2010 earthquake] disaster provided both a platform from which to respond and a lesson on how to strengthen the country’s health system.”Farmer and colleagues write on Haiti after the earthquake
15 Jul 2011
Haiti after the Earthquake is Paul Farmer's report on the "unnatural" disaster of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Complementing his account are stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors. See the Boston Globe story, "Farmer outlines the before and after of Haiti's 'acute-on-chronic' earthquake."Sachs Delivers Global Health Keynote Speech
06 May 2011
On April 4 and 5, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School hosted the inaugural symposium of the Programs in Global Health and Social Change. Global Health Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Excellence and Equity was the launching point for an exchange of ideas focused on some of the most pressing issues confronted by scientists, educators, and practitioners who are committed to improving global health delivery. Jeffrey Sachs delivered the keynote address, which we are pleased to present: Global Health Symposium Keynote.