Podcast appearances and mentions of ophelia dahl

A fox tries to fend for his family, along with many other underground neighbours by outwitting three farmers from right under their noses.   Text copyright © 1970 by Roald Dahl Nominee Limited. Text copyright renewed 1998 by Felicity Dahl, Chantal Sophia Dahl, Theo Dahl, Ophelia Dahl, and Lucy Faircloth Dahl.

Following Episode 21 on pro bono assistance to disasters, host Alicia Aiken revisits our inaugural episode, which tells the story of how a corporate attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel stepped up to help Partners In Health get clearance to deliver aid after a devastating earthquake in Haiti. This encore episode features a previously unreleased conversation with PIH co-founder Ophelia Dahl. PLI is proud to offer programs, pro bono memberships, and scholarships to support the essential public service work of the legal profession.  

Dr. Paul Farmer joins Nate to talk about global health equity, both with reference to past health crises, and today's. In his recent book, Fevers Feuds & Diamonds, Dr. Farmer writes about his first-hand experience responding to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, and what we can learn from it.  Dr. Farmer is professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and co-founder and chief strategist of Partners in Health and a board member of Partners In Health Canada.Partners in Health is dedicated to bringing a high standard of public health care to the most vulnerable communities around the world, and PIH Canada is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The story of Dr. Farmer and colleagues Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl in founding PIH is the subject of the documentary Bending the Arc.

Paul Farmer is a doctor, anthropologist, and “world-class Robin Hood” who has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world’s poorest people. Since 1987, he and Partners in Health, the nonprofit organization he co-founded, have been revolutionizing the field of international health care, pioneering novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality care in resource-poor settings. In 2010, when an earthquake demolished Haiti, Farmer was there. In 2014, when the Ebola virus erupted in Sierra Leone, Farmer was there, too. Whereas others might understandably flee such crises, Farmer runs toward them. Referring to the pathology of power structures, Farmer once confessed, “I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that.” Known as “the man who would cure the world, his life story was captured by Tracy Kidder in the New York Times bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. As the second of six children to a free-spirited father, Farmer became aware of the bigger world and its inequalities from his family’s frequent moves, from Massachusetts to Alabama to Florida. Farmer’s father, a salesman-turned-teacher with unconventional inspirations, converted an old school bus into a mobile home in which the eight of them lived for several years. There was no running water, and their power supply was erratic. At times, the family lived out of tents; a boat, too. His mother was a cashier at the Winn-Dixie supermarket. For what they lacked in stability and material security, Farmer’s parents read Shakespeare and other great literature to their children. They recognized Farmer’s “huge brain,” and supported his academic endeavors. After graduating from high school as both valedictorian and senior class president, Farmer attended Duke University on a full scholarship. He went on to Harvard, where he earned both a PhD in medical anthropology and an MD. It was during college that Farmer took his first trip to Haiti, igniting in him a passion and an anger to be an agent for change. The poor had little to no access to basic medical care, and training opportunities for local doctors and nurses were gravely lacking. With the help of a Haitian priest, Father Lafontant, and a young English woman, Ophelia Dahl, who had come to Haiti as a medical volunteer, he founded a community-based health clinic, Zanmi Lasante, which would grow into a first-rate hospital that served about a million people. Shortly after that seminal visit, HIV/AIDS began to spread in the Haitian urban slums, and the suffering pressed Farmer to do more. Two years later, in 1987, Farmer and Dahl collaborated with Todd McCormack, a former Duke classmate, to found Partners in Health in Boston. Farmer’s innovative methods and tenacious spirit led to cost-effective ways for treating infectious diseases. For the next few decades, Farmer would teach medical students for four months every year in the hospitals of Harvard University—where he is one of only 25 University Professors, and is also Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School—as well as treat patients in Haiti, Rwanda, and other “medical deserts.” He lived on a plane almost as much as being on the ground—an adventurer’s spirit reminiscent of his roving childhood. In addition to direct patient care and international healthcare delivery, Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality with hard-hitting titles like To Repair the World and Pathologies of Power. His writings cover the epidemics that plague our times—from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to racism, inequality, and poverty. Most recently, his book Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History examines the Ebola epidemic through his bifocal lens of medicine and anthropology. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Outstanding International Physician Award from the American Medical Association, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, all $220,000 of which he donated to start a research program at Partners in Health. He serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With the current Covid-19 pandemic, Farmer’s experience at the forefront of multiple epidemics has made him a voice of caution, reason, and compassion. As with Ebola, he urges “expert mercy.” Responses to the global coronavirus pandemic, he says, must combine interventions to save the sick, and slow the spread of disease with humane care across cultural and societal settings. The Ebola outbreak revealed, for example, that social distancing is almost impossible in settings of food insecurity or crowded slums. Farmer has routinely talked about the need for “staff, stuff, spaces, and systems” to respond well. Covid-19 is no different. And communities of color are once again the most vulnerable.    “The idea that some lives matter less,” Farmer asserts, “is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” Join Pavi Mehta and Cynthia Li in conversation with this remarkable humanitarian.

In this show we have the privilege -- and it truly is a privilege -- to talk with two remarkable people: Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer, founders of Partners In Health.  Many of you may already be familiar with them. There have been many articles and books written about Ophelia and Paul, as well as a documentary called Bending the Arc.  They’ve earned this attention because Partners In Health is one of the rare nonprofits started within the last few decades that has truly reached scale. They've helped four million patients through over 200 healthcare facilities in several countries, from Indian reservations here in the U.S. to Haiti, Sierra Leone, Kazakhstan, and beyond. 

In this episode, pioneering physician, anthropologist, and Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer joins Chelsea Clinton to talk about his life’s work to deliver quality, comprehensive health care and fight devastating diseases in some of the poorest places on Earth. Paul has often found himself on the front lines to contain major public health and humanitarian crises in some of the most at-risk places in the world, helping to stop pandemics before they spread and, most importantly, caring for those affected. Together with co-founders Jim Yong Kim and Ophelia Dahl, Paul has forever changed the field of public health through his revolutionary approach to global health equity by supporting strong community-based health systems and partnering with institutions like Harvard Medical School and the Clinton Health Access Initiative to provide all people with world-class medicine. In this episode, Paul shares stories about what he has learned from combating HIV/AIDS, the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and building clinics in countries like Haiti, Rwanda, and Mexico – and why he is optimistic about the future of public health.

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How does imagination inspire us to make a difference? Partners In Health Co–Founder Ophelia Dahl and Boston Globe Food Writer and Restaurant Critic Devra First join Billy Shore to discuss community and culture, tackling complex problems, and the role of imagination in success. Partners In Health focuses on long-term, systems-level healthcare solutions for some of the world’s most impoverished communities. “We... show that if you not only build a clinic, but you also provide jobs and train people, you’re going to lift the economy of the entire community,” explains Dahl. First is known for infusing her food writing with social commentary. “I think that a restaurant critic’s role ultimately is that of consumer advocate. You can illustrate human issues through food very clearly,” she says. Billy Shore asks both guests for career advice for young people beginning their careers. “Reach out to people, talk to people… get your voice out there,” First advises aspiring writers. The seeds for Partners In Health were sown when Dahl volunteered at a clinic in Haiti at the age of 18. “How important it is that you make sure that you’re in a place where your imagination can get to work…I did not have a plan. You really only know your story in hindsight,” she believes. Join us for this perceptive and inspiring conversation about food, culture and how to serve those most in need.Resources and Mentions:· No Kid Hungry (nokidhungry.org): Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is ending child hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need, every day.· Devra First is the Boston Globe’s food writer and restaurant critic. She writes features about the world of food, restaurant reviews, and critical pieces exploring the cultural and societal meaning of food and restaurants. First has worked at the Globe as a writer and editor since 2000. She was previously the Globe’s food editor. She has also served as assistant arts editor in the Globe’s Living/Arts department and worked at the Boston Phoenix. First is originally from New York.· The Boston Globe is New England’s largest news gathering organization. Since its creation in 1852, it has won 26 Pulitzer Prizes. Historically The Globe has been considered “one of the nation’s most prestigious papers.”· Ophelia Dahl is a co-founder of Partners In Health. She has been advocating for the health and rights of poor people for nearly 30 years. In 1983, she volunteered at the small Eye Care Haiti clinic in Haiti’s impoverished Central Plateau. There she met Paul Farmer, and they have been working together ever since to deliver high-quality health care to the destitute sick. Dahl has served as chair of the board since 2000 and served as executive director from 2001 to 2015. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the recipient of the Union Medal by Union Theological Seminary. Dahl is chairman of Dahl & Dahl LLP, which manages the literary estate of her late father, the writer Roald Dahl. She also serves as vice president on the board of Roald Dahl’s Museum and Story Centre.· Partners In Health provides preferential health care options for the poor. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. They draw on the resources of the world’s leading medical and academic institutions and on the lived experience of the world’s poorest and sickest communities. Its mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone.

Emmanuel Kamanzi, Director of Campus Development at the University of Global Health Equity, and Ophelia Dahl ‘94, Founder and Board Chair of Partners In Health, discussed the development of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda and its implications on radical changes to health care globally.

Optimism is a moral choice. – Dr. Jim Yong Kim Thirty years ago, as much of the world was being ravaged by horrific diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, three young people, not yet out of medical school, set out to provide healthcare for Haiti's rural poor. They went on to spend the next three decades on the frontlines of health crises across the globe. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl came together to deliver a world-class level of care — the kind they would expect for their own families — and build health clinics in remote areas ignored by everyone else. Their idea was controversial and revolutionary: to create partnerships with the patients themselves by training ordinary villagers as healthcare workers. Despite enormous resistance from the outside world, they made groundbreaking advances in combating the life-threatening conditions of impoverished communities and against the spread of pandemics including drug-resistant TB, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola. Their inspiring vision is the subject of Bending the Arc, a new film by Academy Award® nominees Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos, and Cori Shepherd Stern. Through candid interviews and never-before-seen archival footage, the film profiles the fiercely dedicated group of doctors and activists as they deliver the highest-quality care in the most unlikely places. Join New America NYC for a screening of Bending the Arc and a conversation with global health practitioners and experts to ask: is healthcare a privilege for those who can afford it or a basic human right?   INTRODUCTION Nina Fialkow Executive Producer, Bending the Arc Chair, Massachusetts Cultural Council PARTICIPANTS Natalia Kanem, MD, MPH @Atayeshe Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Alishya Mayfield, MD, MPH Senior Clinical Adviser on Strategy, Partners in Health (PIH) Anatole Manzi, PhD Director of Clinical Practice, Partners in Health (PIH) Donna Patterson, PhD @PharmacySenegal International Security Fellow, New America Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies, Delaware State University Lori Adelman @Ladelman Executive Director, Feministing Director of Youth Engagement, Women Deliver This event is presented in partnership with Tumblr.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that everyone has a right to health. Yet today, 400 million people lack access to essential health services. Thirty years ago, that number was much higher; in recognition of this inequity, Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and Tom White founded the nonprofit organization Partners In Health to bring high-quality health care to the rural poor in Haiti. The documentary Bending the Arc chronicles the progress and dedication of the organization—which now works in 10 countries around the world—in tackling entrenched diseases, global epidemics, and skepticism among the global community and its institutions. Please join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Abbott in hosting Dr. Paul Farmer for a screening of Bending the Arc, followed by a discussion about today's global health challenges, and the importance of public-private partnerships. 

Ophelia Dahl: Sanctus/Requiem – Gabriel Faure; Ain't Got No (I Got Life) - Nina Simone

Ophelia Dahl: Sanctus/Requiem – Gabriel Faure; Ain't Got No (I Got Life) - Nina Simone

Richard Coles with writer, fisherman and former agony-uncle Nick Fisher, poet Salena Godden, the filmmaker who refused Colonel Gaddafi after going to meet him in the Libyan desert, a woman who grew up on the road in a traveller community, a Crowdscape from Glasgow's Central Station & Inheritance Tracks from Ophelia Dahl. Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

Ophelia Dahl is the Executive Director of Partners in Health, and has worked as an advocate for the health and rights of the poor for over twenty years. A graduate of Wellesley College and a writer herself, Ms. Dahl also serves on the board of her family’s foundation to honor the work of her father, the late writer Roald Dahl, and is engaged in philanthropic works in the United States and her native England.