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The mission of the Brown University Lecture Board is to provide the university community with speakers who are thought provoking and provide insight that complement the academic, extracurricular and developmental elements of the Brown experience. In short, we bring people to speak at Brown that we f…

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    • Nov 8, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
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    "Rebuilding Haiti" by Dr. Paul Farmer

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2010 89:16


    On October 4th, Dr. Paul Farmer, renowned physician-anthropologist, addressed the Brown University community in a lecture entitled "Rebuilding Haiti." The event was sponsored by Brown's Lecture Board in collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the College. Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and has undertaken research and advocacy activities, on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He is the Presley Professor of Social Medicine and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton.

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