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Send us a textIt's hard to overstate how popular writer John Green is. His most famous book, The Fault in Our Stars – a novel about teenagers with cancer, young love, and fate – has sold tens of millions of copies. The film based on the book brought in more than $300 million and it's still popular to this day.Green has become a YouTube star and leader of online communities of fans including Nerdfighteria, as well as a co-host of an annual fundraiser for Project for Awesome. He's also passionate about public health. Green is a member of the board of trustees for Partners in Health and posts regular videos about it.A trip to Sierra Leone in west Africa got Green interested in tuberculosis. Now he's written a book about that ancient disease: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.There are more characters than numbers in the book – from Henry, the charismatic young man John met who appears throughout the story, to the thin and pale women who once made people perceive TB as sexy (really). The book brings a star quality to an often-forgotten infection. Green hopes he can focus the attention of his dedicated audience on this leading global killer. His work to bring attention to TB comes at a dire time, as the incidence of drug-resistant TB grows and the U.S. government slashes funding for global TB care and research.In this episode of One World, One Health, John Green chats with host Maggie Fox about the book, why he wrote it, and what he hopes its publication will accomplish.
About this episode: John Green is a New York Times bestselling author and YouTuber known for writing books like The Fault In Our Stars. His latest book is about tuberculosis. In this episode: A conversation with John Green about why he chose to write about TB, the current state of public health and its challenges, and how the disease and its prevalance reflects so much back on us in terms of who we are as a society. Guest: John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John serves on the board of trustees for the global health nonprofit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at http://johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tuberculosis at http://tbfighters.org . Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: Everything Is Tuberculosis (book)—http://Everythingistb.com Henry Reider, TB Survivor—YouTube Henry's story–Vlogbrothers Tuberculosis in the U.S.—Public Health On Call (February, 2025) Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website. Follow us: @PublicHealthPod on Bluesky @JohnsHopkinsSPH on Instagram @JohnsHopkinsSPH on Facebook @PublicHealthOnCall on YouTube Here's our RSS feed Note: These podcasts are a conversation between the participants, and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University.
Welcome to the podcast! Today, we're thrilled to welcome Jessica Carbone, the Associate Director of Development for Major Gifts at Boston College, where she oversees initiatives in Seattle and Denver. A proud alumna of BC herself, Jessica graduated from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development in 2014, and her journey since then has been nothing short of inspiring. After earning her degree, Jessica jumped into the nonprofit world with Partners In Health, where she made a significant impact as a major gifts coordinator and stewardship associate. She played a key role in launching their first fundraising gala, "An Evening for Equity," and was honored to tour nationally with the late Dr. Paul Farmer for the documentary "Bending the Arc." Continuing her pursuit of knowledge, Jessica went on to complete her master's in Education Policy and Management at Harvard. From there, she moved to Denver, where she excelled as a Major Gift Officer at the University of Colorado Boulder. In July 2023, Jessica returned to her roots in Massachusetts, taking on her current role at Boston College. In addition to her impressive career, we're excited to discuss Jessica's book, Philanthropy Means Love, which delves into the deep connections between giving and love in our communities. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Jessica is an avid traveler—having explored destinations like Bangkok, Madrid, and Sorrento. When she's not on the go, you can find her enjoying time at Long Beach in Rockport, MA, where she has made cherished memories with family. Join us as we dive into Jessica's journey, her insights on philanthropy, and the themes of her book. You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Philanthropy-Means-Love-Jessica-Carbone/dp/B0DC4S4K1R --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devdebrief/support
In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Drs. Kirsten Jorgensen and Alex Melamed to discuss fertility sparing surgery in cervical tumors (
Kristine Batty, APN, BC-ADM, and CDCES talks about her experience both living with Type 1 diabetes and working with people with diabetes as a CDCES, and how understanding both sides of the desk can help to optimize health outcomes. Visit danatech here: Diabetes technology for healthcare professionals | Danatech (adces.org) View Kristine's video series below:Reducing Diabetes Technology Burnout (youtube.com)Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Managing Expectations (youtube.com)Breaking Down Diabetes Technology Barriers (youtube.com)The Essentials of CGM Accuracy (youtube.com) Listen to more episodes of The Huddle at adces.org/perspectives/the-huddle-podcast.Learn more about ADCES and the many benefits of membership at adces.org/join.
Happy New Year, Neurophiliacs! We are thrilled to start 2024 interviewing the one and only, Dr. Aaron Berkowitz. Throughout the hour we covered Aaron's incredible journey into neurology, his work abroad and the process behind creating "One By One By One: Making A Small Difference Amid A Billion Problems," and the supply-demand mismatch of global neurology in developing countries. Dr. Aaron Berkowitz is a professor of clinical neurology at UCSF where he serves as a neurohospitalist, general neurologist, and clinician-educator at the San Francisco VA and San Francisco General Hospital. He previously served as director of global neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. As Health and Policy Advisor to Partners In Health, Senior Specialist Consultant to Doctors Without Borders, prior Chair of the AAN Global Health Section, and prior Co-Chair of the ANA Global Health Section, he has worked tirelessly to improve access to neurologic care and education worldwide. This work has been recognized by the Mridha Humanitarian Award from the American Brain Foundation in 2018 and the Viste Patient Advocate of the Year Award from the AAN in 2019. His work as a neurology educator has been recognized by the Residency Teacher of the Year Award from the MGH/Brigham Neurology Residency program in both 2018 and 2020, the O'Hara Excellence in Preclinical Teaching award from Harvard Medical School in 2016, appointment to the editorial board of Continuum, and frequent invitations to discuss neurology topics on the popular Clinical Problem Solvers podcast. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters including the neurology chapter for the Oxford Manual of Humanitarian Medicine, and four books including the neurology textbook Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy: A Localization-Based Approach and One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems about his work caring for patients with brain tumors in rural Haiti.Follow Dr. Aaron Berkowitz on Twitter @aaronlberkowitz Follow the Neurophilia Podcast on Twitter and Instagram @NeurophiliaPodFollow Dr. Nupur Goel on Twitter @mdgoelsFollow Dr. Blake Buletko on Twitter @blakebuletkoSupport the show
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Kristin Nelson as a guest to the show. Kristin is the founder and CEO of Audivi Memory Banks. About Kristin Nelson: Kristin Nelson is Founder/CEO of Audivi Memory Banks, a business inspired by her experience as a caregiver for her mother with dementia. Seeing firsthand how her mother's long-term memories provided comfort and familiarity, Kristin developed Audivi Memory Banks to help individuals & families save and play back memories, anytime, anywhere, with the click of a button. Prior to this work, Kristin served for over 20 years on the senior leadership team of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit dedicated to providing quality health care to the poorest of the poor. Kristin is passionate about ensuring provision of services to those who need them most: in this case, memories to those losing their memory. She has been certified as a Dementia Care Practitioner, a UCLA Memory Trainer, and is an Advisor at University of Vermont's Women in Leadership Program at the Grossman School of Business. About Audivi Memory Banks: Audivi Memory Banks is an app-based reminiscing activity and tool. Ask a question, record a memory, upload a photo & play back memories anytime, anywhere with the click of a button. Audivi's audio-visual platform creates an engaging trip down memory lane that ensures on-going access to memories and the benefits of reminiscing. For those experiencing memory loss, Audivi Memory Banks provide a comforting touchstone to the past, a springboard to connect & converse, and a tool for caregivers to redirect moments of anxiety, confusion, irritability.
How can you make change while traveling the world? In today's episode we speak with Sarah Singer: a coach, organizational consultant, and mental health leader, proudly representing Boston University Sargent ('14) and School of Public Health ('15). Listen to hear about Sarah's extensive work in mental health programming with Partners in Health and her new journey as a digital nomad.
In our third episode will be speaking to Christa Michaud from Partners in Health. Christa is a Senior Development Officer on the Major and Principal Gifts team at Partners In Health, a social justice nonprofit that provides high quality health care to those who need it most. In addition to helping generate the funding needed to support PIH's mission, Christa also contributes to several of the organizations Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Before transitioning to the nonprofit sector 13 years ago, Christa spent more than a decade working at marketing communications firms across the Midwest, developing and managing multi-million-dollar advertising, public relations, and global brand campaigns. A native of St. Louis, MO, Christa has been a Miami Beach resident for seven years. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Christa is a member of the Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and 100+ Women Who Care Miami Beach. You can find out more about Partners in Health here: https://www.pih.org/
Join hosts Sophie Neal and Dr. Tanner Schrank as they continue exploring the world of global healthcare in part two of their interview with Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer at Partners In Health. This second episode of the "Leading Women in Healthcare" mini-series focuses on Dr. Mukherjee's advocacy for social medicine and promoting equity in the medical field. Tune in as Dr. Mukherjee shares her advice and experiences in overcoming challenges and pushing for change to ensure a more just and inclusive healthcare system. Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization which fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. Read more: https://pih.org/?utm_source=amboss&utm_medium=web&utm_id=joia_podcast Dr. Mukherjee's commencement address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHavkwu0Xjk Sign up for a free 5-day trial at https://go.amboss.com/pod-5day-trial. Read more at the AMBOSS blog: https://go.amboss.com/blog-ambosspod. Find out more about the AMBOSS podcast: https://go.amboss.com/int_podcast-23.
Physician Associate (formerly Physician Assistant) students learn the preclinical curriculum right along side their Doctor of Medicine colleagues here at Iowa. Of course, that means they learn the same things, but also the level of trust and mutual understanding between the two professions is that much more explicit. October 6 to 12 is Physician Associates Week, and PA1 producer Noah Vasquez rounded up some classmates--Olivia Quinby, Emily Sarvis, and Noah Herkert--to talk about how they chose their future profession, what they're learning, and what their plans are after they graduate.
Mark Brender is National Director of Partners in Health Canada, a global health and social justice NGO relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. Starting from a one-room clinic in Haiti more than 30 years ago, Partners in Health today serves millions of patients each year across 11 countries, working to deliver high quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train service providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change. Mark opened the PIH Canada office in 2011 and is passionate about raising awareness and funds for this effort, and empowering Canadians to join the movement for global health equity. He previously held leadership positions with national and international charitable organizations. Prior to his career in the non-profit sector, he spent more than a decade as an award-winning hockey journalist, writing about those who practice a different kind of justice. We discuss how Mark left his previous career and lifestyle behind to enter the world of NGOs. Mark talks about the transition and how it filled his life with more purpose. You'll be inspired by the numerous success stories shared by Mark.
In this exciting episode, we delve into part one of a two-part interview featuring the inspirational Dr. Joia Mukherjee, a beacon in global health and the Chief Medical Officer at Partners In Health. Our conversation explores her personal journey in the healthcare field, from the challenges of delivering comprehensive healthcare to elevating medical education with elements of social medicine and health equity. Dr. Mukherjee shares insights from her roles as an educator, an advocate, and a physician. This mini-series not only highlights the achievements of women leaders in healthcare, but also leaves listeners with invaluable advice for having a meaningful impact in the world of medicine. Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization which fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. Read more: https://pih.org/?utm_source=amboss&utm_medium=web&utm_id=joia_podcast Dr. Mukherjee's commencement address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHavkwu0Xjk Sign up for a free 5-day trial at https://go.amboss.com/pod-5day-trial. Read more at the AMBOSS blog: https://go.amboss.com/blog-ambosspod. Find out more about the AMBOSS podcast: https://go.amboss.com/int_podcast-23.
Good morning friends and neighbors. We hope you're all doing well this first day of September. We have news, weather and much more. Let's get ready to learn! Here's the news: - Saturday, November 4th join our friends of Bardwell Residences for their Fall Market. This will take place from 10 am to 2 pm at 301 Weston avenue. Vendors are welcome but must contact Becki at (630) 892-5790. This event is free and open to the public and will be much fun! - September 22nd and 23rd the Alabaster Jar Ministry conference will take place at Everlasting Word Church (22 N. Highland) on Aurora' west side. There will be a service on Friday evening on the 22nd of September, followed by speakers, lunch and giveaways the following day. See the flyers for more details and please attend. This event is free and open to the public. - Our friends of Partners In Health will have the 18th annual health festival Saturday, September 9th at Prisco Community Center. This will be from 7:30 am to 11:30 am and will have presentations and physical activity. There will also be breakfast, prizes and resources for our community. This event is free, open to the public and will help you and your family. For more information call (888) 352-7874. Have a great rest of the day and an awesome weekend. Good Morning Aurora will return next week with more news, weather, and the very best of Aurora. Subscribe to the show on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodMorningAuroraPodcast The second largest city's first daily news podcast is here. Tune in every Monday, Wednesday & Friday to our FB Live from 8 am to 9 am. Make sure to like and subscribe to stay updated on all things Aurora. Twitter: goodmorningaur1 Instagram: goodmorningaurorail Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6dVweK5Zc4uPVQQ0Fp1vEP... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../good-morning.../id1513229463 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningaurora #positivevibes #positiveenergy #downtownaurora #kanecountyil #bataviail #genevail #stcharlesil #saintcharlesil #elginil #northaurorail #auroraillinois #cityofaurorail #auroramedia #auroranews #goodmorningaurora #news #dailynews #subscribe #youtube #podcast #spotify #morningnews #morningshow #friday #september --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goodmorningaurora/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goodmorningaurora/support
Good morning and happy Wednesday friends! We have a short show for you today. Our meeting with our friends of Companeros En Salud is this morning so we must be ready and on time. Let's get ready to learn! Here's the news: - Thursday, May 18th join the Quarterly Community Stakeholder Meeting hosted by Blue Cross Community MMAI & BCCHP (Blue Cross Community Health Plans). This event will be in-person and virtual and will be held at the downtown Aurora, Santori branch of the Aurora Public Library. The event is from 1 to 2:30 pm and registration is required. You can do so at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuceugqTkuGtL9i16LjulhNcy13UM_yRrg#/registration - This Saturday is Aurora Greenfest 2023! This will take place from 10 am to 4 pm at the Prisc o Center and the adjoining McCullough Park. There will be awesome food vendors, music and fun for the entire family. Learn more about Aurora Greenfest by visiting the website here: https://www.auroragreenfest.com/ Have a safe, blessed and prosperous day! Good Morning Aurora will return Friday with more news and more Aurora. Subscribe to the show on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodMorningAuroraPodcast The second largest city's first daily news podcast is here. Tune in every Monday, Wednesday & Friday to our FB Live from 8 am to 9 am. Make sure to like and subscribe to stay updated on all things Aurora. Twitter: goodmorningaur1 Instagram: goodmorningaurorail Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6dVweK5Zc4uPVQQ0Fp1vEP... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../good-morning.../id1513229463 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningaurora #positivevibes #positiveenergy #downtownaurora #kanecountyil #bataviail #genevail #stcharlesil #saintcharlesil #elginil #northaurorail #auroraillinois #auroramedia #auroranews #goodmorningaurora #news #dailynews #subscribe #youtube #podcast #spotify #morningnews #morningshow #wednesday --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goodmorningaurora/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/goodmorningaurora/support
Author Tracy Kidder has been described as a “master of narrative nonfiction.” Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his 1981 book, “The Soul of a New Machine,” about the development of cutting edge computers. He is the author of more than a dozen books including the acclaimed 2003 New York Times bestseller, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” about the late global health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health. The book is often assigned as required reading in colleges.The Washington Post says that Kidder writes about “the moral value of small victories in a world of big problems.”Homelessness is the focus of Kidder's latest bestselling book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People.” Kidder spent five years following Dr. O'Connell as he worked the streets of Boston. Kidder was moved by the people he met who were experiencing homelessness in Boston and wanted to tell their stories. “If you get to know them, to really look at them — and a lot of people never do — you realize that they're every bit as human as you and I, and that old adage, There but for the grace of God go I.”“The engine of every good story is human character,” said Kidder. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and the New York Times but he insisted, “I'm a storyteller more than I am a journalist.”“I stopped thinking of myself as a journalist around the time of the Iraq War. I didn't want to be associated,” he explained. “Because there were so many lies told and so much bad reporting… it starts to taint the term. And then you have Fox News. …It's a wonderful profession, journalism. I believe in it utterly. But I want to see it practiced better.”Kidder says of his craft that “the techniques of storytelling don't belong exclusively to fiction.” Good writing should “be like a pane of glass. The writing itself should be interesting but it doesn't have to be flashy. I believe in immersion in the story that I've discovered.”
“The qualities of a provider that were envisioned fifty years ago are completely different from what the world needs for tomorrow. It's completely different,” insists Dr. Abebe Bekele, who is entrusted with educating this new breed of physician at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. As Bekele explains to host Shiv Gaglani in this special in-person interview on the campus of UGHE in Butaro, Rwanda, COVID-19 has demonstrated that doctors now need to be able to serve as leaders of institutions, manage large projects, raise money and interface with influential public sector players such as policymakers and journalists. The program at UGHE has been designed with that in mind by providing a grounding in liberal arts and humanities along with the necessary medical content. As you'll learn in this insightful conversation, the relatively young school -- which was established by Partners in Health in 2015 -- is taking a thoughtful approach to meeting healthcare needs in the region through admissions policies and scholarships that are boosting the number of female physicians and incentivizing its graduates to practice medicine in their home communities. Beyond connecting with Dr. Bekele, Shiv's visit gave him a chance to meet with students and faculty to gain a deeper understanding of the partnership Osmosis has with UGHE which is part of a larger effort to support medical education in Sub-Saharan Africa, including in Namibia where he was born. As you'll hear, Shiv came away seeing UGHE as a model for health education in an increasingly interconnected world. Mentioned in this episode: https://ughe.org/
Dr. Paul Farmer, a co-founder of Partners In Health and a medical anthropologist affiliated with Harvard University, died, unexpectedly, on February 21, 2022. A year after his death, 10 of his colleagues and friends share what they miss and what lessons they hope to carry forward.
It is not common to find a psychiatrist with an MBA, but Gary Gottlieb took it upon himself to diversify his career and become involved in the policy making aspects of healthcare. In this episode, Patrick, Marjorie, and Dr. Gottlieb discuss the history and policies that impact our current healthcare system, as well as what can be done to incentivise providers to improve behavioral healthcare services. “I think we can't rest in the circumstances we're in now. We can't rest with people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, who are living in the street or in undignified housing–or being shuttled and waiting in emergency rooms for days for a bed because they're not paid properly. Or because there aren't enough appropriate services in a system that's fragmented and inefficient. That's just not acceptable” -Dr. Gary Gottlieb There is still a lot to do for mental healthcare to come to the forefront of policy making and to improve our response to support persons with chronic mental health conditions. Dr. Gottlieb also dives into how his geriatric psychiatry practice has had a tremendous impact on his advocacy and how steps we take today could benefit our future brain. Our guest, Gary Gottlieb, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2015 through June of 2019, he served as CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. Gottlieb is an executive partner at health venture firm Flare Capital Partners and a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to follow or subscribe wherever you are listening, and share the show with your colleagues and friends. You can also subscribe to our YouTube Channel here, https://www.youtube.com/c/PsychHub. Future Of Mental Health is a Psych Hub Podcast and is for educational purposes only. Visit https://psychhub.com to dig deeper and access the world's most comprehensive platform for behavioral health education. Follow us on Social Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/FOMHshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychhubeducation
In 2010 Ellen Dunham Jones gave a TedTalk on retrofitting the suburbs and repurposing malls. In 2021, Kedar Mate et al authored a piece in Harvard Business Review Why Health Care Systems Should Invest in Medical Malls Kedar Mate, MD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), President of the Lucian Leape Institute, and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Mate's scholarly work has focused on health system design, health care quality, strategies for achieving large-scale change, and approaches to improving value. Previously Dr. Mate worked at Partners In Health, the World Health Organization, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and served as IHI's Chief Innovation and Education Officer. Dr. Mate has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and white papers and has received multiple honors including serving as a Soros Fellow, Fulbright Specialist, Zetema Panelist, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in American History and from Harvard Medical School with a medical degree. You can follow him on twitter at @KedarMate Ian Sinnett, AIA, ACHA, is a Principal and board-certified healthcare architect who co-leads the Dallas Health Practice for Perkins&Will. His expertise is concentrated on the strategic, pre-design, programming, and planning phases of projects furthered by a continued level of intensity and project engagement through completion and first-patient. Ian has worked with a range of for-profit, developer, rural, academic, and not-for-profit clients including MD Anderson Cancer Center, HCA, UT Southwestern, Children's Health, Penn Medicine, Legacy Community Health, and RedBird Dallas. Notable recent projects include critical access hospitals in Uvalde, TX and Pecos, TX, a complete reconfiguration and expansion of the Lancaster General Health ED (15th busiest in the US), and acting as the Principal in Charge of the RedBird Mall Sears Dark Store revitalization with UT Southwestern and Children's Health in Southern Dallas. Outside of his professional life, Ian travels the world with his wife, is a volunteer and advocate for Big Brothers Big Sisters, and is building his dream get-a-away in the high deserts of West Texas.
With its mission to bring the benefits of modern medicine to places that have been impacted by poverty and injustice, Partners In Health has been at the forefront of the battle for global health equity since it began in 1987. Founded by a group of like-minded physicians and philanthropists, including the late Dr. Paul Farmer, it has focused on strengthening health systems in the communities that need them most. “Paul really saw that the link between academia and clinical and the community had to be a deliberate and authentic one," says Dr. Sheila Davis, CEO of Partners In Health. Dr. Davis began her work as a nurse fighting the HIV pandemic in the 1980s and has since built an amazing career in healthcare and philanthropy, holding multiple leadership roles at Partners In Health over the past decade. In this informative conversation with host Shiv Gaglani, she gives us an inside look at the organization's current work, provides insights on what it takes to strengthen healthcare systems, and stresses the importance of taking a community-grounded approach. Mentioned in this episode: https://www.pih.org/
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.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Paul Farmer (1959 – 2022), published by Gavin on March 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. One of the most prominent people in global health died last month. Wikipedia makes it hard to see what Paul Farmer actually did, behind the mountain of honors and appointments he received for it (Harvard prof, MacArthur grant, UN envoy, etc). He cofounded Partners In Health, now a $100m+ per year organisation. PIH works in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Lesotho, Kazakhstan, Rwanda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, India and Liberia, greatly upgrading the quality of healthcare near their operations, and doing a huge amount of welfare programmes besides. They class themselves as a humanitarian organisation, though most of their work is not the crisis work you'd associate with that (except incidentally, as when an earthquake happened next to the hospital they were building). They do a huge, huge variety of things, under the root-cause theory of public health, where stuff like good shelter and food is treated as part of healthcare. They started out doing HIV treatment - and once you're doing that it only makes sense to do HIV prevention - and after that you're kinda hosed. An incomplete list: "HIV treatment, tuberculosis treatment... food baskets, transportation, lodging... dirty water... from in-home consultations to cancer treatments... job skills training, small business loans... a university in Rwanda... the world's largest TB research study... biocontainment unit in Lima... allowing [children] to attend school and receive food". Farmer's most notable work is being the single most powerful advocate for Haitian public health; PIH staff serve nearly half the entire country, and he was mates with Bills Clinton and Gates. Haiti will need another Farmer: He was an anthropologist by trade. In the past I've gotten annoyed with anthropology for bad epistemics (or for conflating good epistemics and good activism). But it's hard to fault Farmer as exemplar of the general approach "don't just watch, do something". I take his lifework to amount to the importance of operations. He didn't develop any vaccines or pills, he didn't make a pile of cash and give it away, and his research wasn't the main feature. Instead (as per Wikipedia) his org "created specific initiatives", "improved medical infrastructure" and provided "accompaniment rather than charity". (As with all large development organisations, they have their own homebrew intellectual framework, "Supervision-Partners-Incentives-Choice-Education".) Suitably unglamorous terms for good unglamorous things. He was extremely good at getting powerful people to care. There's a whole book about him, and he has been widely elegised. This marks out his strategy as the prestige route, using the system. Near the ceiling of that approach, perhaps. Achievements As usual in global health, most discussion of PIH's impact is actually about their inputs: number of staff, number of programmes, etc. (Not their budget though, which is both good and bad.) GiveWell gave them an ultra-tentative recommendation in 2007, but this was largely on priors about good healthcare in countries with a shortage of it. ("We would guess that it is improving health outcomes") When evaluated properly in 2010, GW found that PIH weren't formally evaluating their own work and mostly wouldn't share their programme budgets, and so they couldn't give them the internalist stamp of approval. ("We would guess that they are outside – though not necessarily far outside – what we consider to be a reasonable range [of cost-effectiveness].") "focused on AIDS prevention during the HIV crisis and successfully decreased HIV transmission rates by 4% from mothers to babies" Built and run several hospitals, including 40% of Haiti's medical system. One nice feature: they're big on videoconferencing for ...
As the world faces enormous challenges, in Ukraine and from COVID, it's doing so without one of its global health champions. Dr. Paul Farmer, the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health, unexpectedly passed away in February. This week Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health, shares memories with Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter. She explains how the nonprofit's focus will remain on community health in the countries it serves. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen
As the world faces enormous challenges, in Ukraine and from COVID, it's doing so without one of its global health champions. Dr. Paul Farmer, the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health, unexpectedly passed away in February. This week Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health, shares memories with Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter. She explains how the nonprofit's focus will remain on community health in the countries it serves.
Dr. Paul Farmer, who passed away unexpectedly in Rwanda on February 21st, fundamentally changed the way healthcare is delivered in the most impoverished places on Earth, touched millions of lives, and inspired countless others to follow his example. In tribute to his extraordinary life and pioneering work, this special episode features a conversation between Chelsea Clinton and Dr. Farmer from 2019, as well as President Clinton's reflections about his longtime friend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As the world faces enormous challenges, in Ukraine and from COVID, it's doing so without one of its global health champions. Dr. Paul Farmer, the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health, unexpectedly passed away in February. This week Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health, shares memories with Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter. She explains how the nonprofit's focus will remain on community health in the countries it serves. The post Building on the Legacy of Global Health Leader Dr. Paul Farmer appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.
This week we're remembering the reading from the Prophet Joel we heard on Ash Wednesday, and reflecting on the idea of communal repentance, communal sin, communal suffering, communal life, and communal faith. Maybe the idea of communal Lent has come to us in this complicated, hyper self-oriented, and challenging time for a reason. Maybe it's time we remember we belong to each other. If you'd like to connect with me, find me on Instagram or on my blog. If you'd like to help support this podcast financially, there's now a way to do just that, and thank you - visit me on my page at buymeacoffee.com! Thanks as always for sharing, subscribing, rating, and reviewing, as this helps our community to grow! Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself: 1. Book of Joel overview from Bible Project 2. Where Peter Is: A collaborative effort of writers increasingly concerned about divisive attacks on Pope Francis and effects on the Church 3. Podcast: Field Hospital with Mike Lewis and Jeannie Gaffigan 4. Song: One Voice, by The Wailin' Jennys 5. Song: Clean - Live, by Hillsong 6. Song: People of God, by Gungor 7. Lenten resources/study from author Kate Bowler 8. Book: Bitter & Sweet, by Tsh Oxenreider 9. On Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners In Health, a modern and timely example of someone who gave his life away in the name of God on behalf of his sisters and brothers 10. Podcast: Jesuitical - Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer - a Catholic Who Wanted to Cure the World
Matt Bonds is co-founder of Pivot Health, a primary healthcare provider in Madagascar. He previously worked for Partners In Health in Rwanda for 5 years. Maria Franco is Director of Programs at Mulago Foundation, which means she recruits and selects fellows for Mulago Foundation. LinkedIn Matt Bonds: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bonds-92440443/ Maria Elena Franco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariafranco1/ Other podcasts with Mulago Foundation: https://aidevolved.com/podcast/kevin-starr/ If you liked this podcast please subscribe here: https://www.wishesgranted.media/p/newsletter/ Music: Cali by Wataboi
The global health community and countless others who were healed, taught or simply inspired by Dr. Paul Farmer were shocked and saddened to learn of his death on Feb. 21. Dr. Farmer was a medical anthropologist, physician and co-founder of Partners In Health, a nonprofit that revolutionized global health care. He believed the poorest of the poor in places like Haiti and Rwanda deserve high-quality medical care—then dedicated his life to delivering it. Dr. Farmer was also deeply Catholic and a man with a gift for friendship, including with Jennie Weiss Block, who we speak with this week in Signs of the Times. Jennie, a Dominican laywoman and practical theologian, served both as Paul's chief adviser starting in 2009 and his spiritual director. We talk to Jennie about the sides of Paul the world never saw and what she thinks Paul would want his many admirers to do now to carry on his legacy. We also had the great blessing of speaking with Paul back in June 2021, and in honor and celebration of his life, we are sharing that conversation again this week. Dr. Paul Farmer, pray for us. Links from the show: Paul Farmer was my friend. He should be made a saint—and a doctor of the church. Dr. Paul Farmer: Medicine and liberation theology Paul Farmer: Servant to the Poor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Russian President Vladimir Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine’s two breakaway regions after recognizing them as independent states, increasing the risk of all-out war; Remembering the life and legacy of public health icon Dr. Paul Farmer, who co-founded Partners In Health and has died unexpectedly at age 62. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Russian President Vladimir Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine’s two breakaway regions after recognizing them as independent states, increasing the risk of all-out war; Remembering the life and legacy of public health icon Dr. Paul Farmer, who co-founded Partners In Health and has died unexpectedly at age 62. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer at Partners in Health, joined WBUR's Morning Edition to remember Farmer's legacy.
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a remarkable guest, Paul English who shares insights on his journey to building a huge life, creating maximum productivity, the key to balance life, time management, how to formulate investment decisions, health hacks that work, and achieving a life with minimal stress while giving an impact on the world! Paul English is a Boston-based serial entrepreneur and activist, a former lecturer to different schools, and Co-founder of Lola, Kayak, Xiangqi.com, Moonbeam, GetHuman, Boston Light, and Intermute. He is also a nonprofit co-founder of King Boston, Summits and the Winter Walk. Paul also serves on the boards of Partners In Health, Flying Kites, Village Health Works, and Humanity Rises. Paul co-founded Kayak in 2004. It is a travel company that was sold for $2 billion. As he makes some pretty good money at that time, he never forgets to share it with his team. In fact, over half of his employees became a millionaire. But prior to Kayak, Paul had already created five (5) successful companies that have a loving culture. He makes sure his team is the priority before the customer and the profit. How did that happen? The customers get surprised at something that they couldn't get anywhere else; accordingly, all the finance will fall into place. Moreover, Paul has always been transparent and honest about what things are going well and whatnot, and treats employees the same way. He creates a working environment that values people, and appreciates every single employee to work with the same side of things. Thus, makes them invigorated, and excited about their job. Presently, being passionate about helping people, Paul wanted to make money as much as he can so he can give more impact to his 3 non-profits companies, and to the world as well! Some Questions I Ask: How long have you been living kind of this business, life, and balance in your world? (01:35) When you sold the Kayak company for $2 billion, what was that feeling like? (02:53) As you guys went into creating Kayak, was that the vision of where you thought you guys would end up? (04:59) How would you say your company culture was? (06:18) What do you think it is about you based on some of the reflections you've had that you've done really well as a leader or gaps that you need to attack? (09:19) How do you keep and create that balance when you're in the trenches to get some traction and momentum behind it? (10:48) In terms of your morning or evening routines, which one do you like better, do you feel like is a ‘must-have” and staple that everyone should be incorporating in to serve at such a high level? (13:55) How have you shown up to get a little bit more sleep? (15:52) What has that kind of journey to enlighten or awareness look like for you? (19:14) Are there any other characteristics that you see in others successfully that you've worked with or that have really worked well for you? (22:12) What was your motivation for becoming an entrepreneur? (25:14) Why do you go and continue down this grind and this path? Where's that leading you to what's your focus on today? (29:25) How did you analyze whether or not it made sense to go after some of these businesses from a financial aspect? (30:56) In This Episode, You Will Learn: 3 priorities that Paul working every day (05:25) The Fifteen Commitments of Conscious Leadership book (08:20) How Paul mitigate his weaknesses (09:55) The Secret to Minimizing Stress (12:10) Paul health hacks (17:16) How Paul formulate his investment decisions (27:11) Quotes: “Team first, customer second, and profit third.” “If you cling to the past you just creating stress for yourself.” “Work is all about ideation and how do you invent and solve problems.” Connect with Paul English on: Lola Moonbeam Kayak LinkedIn A Truck Full of Money book by Tracy Kidder
Today is a researchers' roundtable, with: Renu Singh, Jon Shaffer, and Lucia Vitale. Jon Shaffer is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Boston University. He is studying how global health NGOs resist dominant field pressures and develop alternative strategies in advancing state-protected universal health care access, social change, and human rights. Before starting graduate school, Jon was involved in the founding and served as the executive director of GlobeMed. He then served as the senior strategist for community organizing at Partners In Health, where he launched PIH Engage, a program that links trains activists around the country to fight for the right to health here and around the world. Most recently, Jon and colleagues launched R2H Action, a campaign to leverage the COVID-19 disaster to ensure that the human right to health and a safe environment is realized by everyone, everywhere. Renu Singh, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor within the Division of Public Policy, a Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Junior Fellow, and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is also a Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law and a DAAD Research Ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service. As a political scientist and microbiologist by training, Renu aims to bridge the worlds of science and policy through her research on comparative social policy, global health security and governance, and the political economy of health. Lucia Vitale is an interdisciplinary global health scholar who uses comparative political science methods, theories in sociology, and also geography to explore multi-scale effects of global health governance and primary healthcare access. While her research is geographically located along the border of the Dominican Republic with Haiti, non-state transnational decision making spaces are central to her work. After graduating with her B.A. in 2015, Vitale taught English in Comayagua, Honduras, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic (DR), and then worked as a contractor for USAID's Local Works program where she investigated access to documentation, and assessed the needs of cooperatives at the community level.
In this episode we talk about an organization that succeeded in helping to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake and how they pulled it off.
Ann Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of CORE Response, returns to the podcast to give us an update on how they are responding to the earthquake that rocked Haiti on August 14. To learn more about Ann, listen to our first podcast conversation on October 13 2020. Consider supporting these fantastic organizations: CORE, World Central Kitchen, Partners In Health, and LIDÈ Haiti. Follow Ann on Twitter and Instagram. Follow CORE on Twitter and Instagram. _________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at hello@letsgiveadamn.com. Follow Let's Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don't want you to miss a thing! If you love what we're doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can't do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! See you next year. Keep giving a damn. Love y'all! Edited and Sound Designed by Sound On Studios.
Had a good conversation with Christian Davis aka Don't Miss Chris who is a comedian from Chicago and an aspiring actor. He played the love interest in the movie When Love Comes Knocking which is available on Amazon Prime. Checkout the movie! Instagram: dontmiss_chris Facebook: Dontmiss Chris Movie: https://www.amazon.com/Comes-Knocking-Chantal-Hayes-Randall/dp/B09C8B65Z1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VRDYTM05EYKI&dchild=1&keywords=when+love+comes+knocking&qid=1629267947&sprefix=when+love+comes+knocking%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-1 Below are links to Haitian led-organizations that are raising funds to help Haiti. Sow A Seed: https://fundraise.sowaseedonline.org/campaign/emergency-relief-in-haiti-earthquake-2021/c352947 Ayiti Community Trust: https://www.classy.org/campaign/earthquake-relief-fund/c352932 Hope For Haiti: https://hopeforhaiti.com Fonkoze: https://fonkoze.org Man Dodo: https://mandodo.org/donate/ Partners In Health: https://www.pih.org/?form=Haiti-Earthquake&ms=hp Ayiti Demen: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/ayiti-demen/fokal-haiti-relief-support-for-organizations-in-the-southern-peninsula-of-haiti P4H Global: https://p4hglobal.org/donate If you like the podcast, please subscribe and leave a review. You can follow the podcast page on instagram @i.t.m.podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital has come a long way over the years--and that transformation has been both structural and personal. We speak with Annieru Braima, head nurse; Julianna Showers, mental health nurse; and Alpha Sesay, infrastructure lead for Partners In Health, to learn about how the hospital has grown from an impoverished, under-resourced facility into a dignified hospital providing quality mental health care to patients. Because renovation is about much more than improving a building—it can mark the start of a new era, for patients, communities, and a country.
How is mental health connected to history? And what can one hospital teach us about it? In this new podcast miniseries from Partners In Health, doctors, patients and historians in Sierra Leone tell the story of Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital--the oldest psychiatric hospital in sub-Saharan Africa--which marked its 200th anniversary this year.This miniseries will dive deep into Sierra Leone's history--including slavery, colonialism and civil war--to explore how the past holds implications for mental health. Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital--once an impoverished facility that, due to lack of resources, used chains to keep patients from harming themselves and others--tells a story of both trauma and transformation: how the past never fully leaves, but can inform our present and future.Subscribe to Unchain and get ready for the first episode to drop on October 17.
Aaron Berkowitz, MD PhD, is the founding Director of Global Health at Kaiser Permanente Medical School and was the founding Director of the Global Neurology Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and directed the first-year Mind-Brain-Behavior course at Harvard Medical School. As a consultant for Partners In Health and advisor to Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Berkowitz has worked in Haiti, Malawi, Vietnam, and on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. Dr. Aaron Berkowitz will discuss his new book, One by One by One which offers invaluable and inspiring lessons for anyone who hopes to make a small difference in the world's billions of problems, one step at a time.
Ancito Etienne had already fought for his life before reaching high school, having battled childhood cancer thanks to support from Partners In Health. Soon after his cure, he faced another challenge: how he could help his country in the wake of the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
Earthquakes were not something Loune Viaud was used to, despite having lived in Haiti all her life. The executive director of Zanmi Lasante, as Partners In Health is known in Haiti, was in Port-au-Prince when the massive earthquake struck on January 12, 2010, and her first thought was to travel to the General Hospital to see how she could help. What she found changed the course of her life, and that of many others she found there that day.
Many Haitians returned to their home country to help respond to the devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. Maxo was among them, and stayed for eight months working in camps for the displaced. He shares his perspective on why the earthquake was so destructive, and how it has affected him personally. Transcript Host, Leslie Friday: Byenvini or welcome. I'm your host, Leslie Friday. Thank you for listening to Voices of Haiti, a Partners In Health podcast that shares the stories of our Haitian colleagues as they reflect on the January 12th 2010 earthquake. Today, we hear from an infectious disease doctor who began working with Zanmi Lasante, as PIH is known in Haiti, in 2005. He has helped patients battle deadly diseases like tuberculosis and HIV and seen them recover—against all odds. Some odds, though, are hard to predict. Like when a massive earthquake will bring a nation to its knees. Maxo Luma: It's not magic. You cannot stop a natural disaster. It's very unpredictable, right? But what we can do, we can minimize, we can reduce the magnitude of every single natural disaster, if you have a strong healthcare system ... Host, Leslie Friday: That's Dr. Maxo Luma, who's currently the executive director of Partners In Health in Liberia. But at the time of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he was teaching courses within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. You might think Maxo's perspective on the earthquake is unique, or possibly even wrong. But stick with what he has to say. Maxo Luma: The earthquake did not kill people. What I'm trying to say is that all those people who died, it's like a quarter of a million people who died, more than another quarter of million you know, are left injured, you know handicapped after the earthquake, we cannot attribute all this to the earthquake. It was the system, the weakness of the system you know, that kill those people. Host, Leslie Friday: As a direct result of the earthquake, more than 50 hospitals and health centers collapsed. Dozens of nurses and doctors died. This occurred within a public health system that was already struggling. So…who cares for the gravely injured when there are no first responders? How do you transport victims, when there are few ambulances? Where do you take patients when the nearest hospitals stand in ruins? As Maxo says, a weak health system AND overall infrastructural systems were the causes of death for thousands of Haitians. That point became clearer—just one month later--when a larger, 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, spurring a devastating tsunami. All told, 500 people lost their lives. This comparison is not meant to belittle what happened in Chile--all loss of life is tragic. But it is necessary when asking the question: why were there such different outcomes between the earthquake in Haiti, and the dual natural disasters in Chile? As Maxo says, the answer to this question doesn't require magical knowledge. The answer…is that Chile, among other advantages, had a stronger PUBLIC health system compared to Haiti. Maxo Luma: After the earthquake, Haiti attracted a lot of attention from the international community, where they made a lot of promises, most of them were not kept, right? And for those who managed to commit or keep their promises, they did it the wrong way. Because whether or not we believe it, it is of the responsibility of the government of the country to ensure safety of citizens, to ensure basic human rights, education, water, sanitation, healthcare. This is the responsibility of the government of the country. Host, Leslie Friday: But here's the catch: the Haitian government received less than 1% of humanitarian aid, and less than 10% of recovery aid donated in the wake of the earthquake. The vast majority of funding—billions of dollars—flowed to private contractors, foreign-based nonprofit organizations, and the donors' militaries...
What was it like to survive the most devastating earthquake in modern history? In this series, Partners In Health doctors, nurses, and staff—all Haitians—share stories about their most salient memories from the January 2010 earthquake. Some discuss the first moments and days after the disaster, while others reflect on the months and years that followed. This is the first time some of our colleagues have ever shared their stories. As a collection, Voices of Haiti provides listeners with a unique and intimate perspective of what it was like to survive and respond to one of the world's most deadly natural disasters. Learn more about PIH's work in Haiti: pih.org/haiti Support this podcast
Today's No Limits was broadcast live from Franklin College. Host John Krull talks to Partners in Health founders Paul Farmer and Todd McCormack.
This week we're kicking of a three-part series on how social enterprises can partner with governments to achieve greater scale and impact. We're talking with Erin Worsham, Executive Director of the award-winning Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Erin shares her views and insights from the Scaling Pathways research study around scaling impact through government partnerships. The Scaling Pathways study, of which Erin is the lead author, surveyed over 100 social enterprises to understand the hardest barriers and challenges encountered by social enterprises and gathered cross-cutting lessons and best practices to shed light on how to overcome those barriers and challenges. On this podcast, you will learn: Why working with governments has been identified as one of the key challenges for scaling impact by social enterprises. The Scaling Pathways study focused on uncovering some of the best practices and lessons from 11 social enterprises across geographies and sectors, such as VillageReach, Partners in Health, Code for America, and Pratham, to name a few. Why as a first step, it is critical for social enterprises to set their vision for engaging with governments and define clear goals of the partnership and why funding from governments, while important is not among the key driving goals for social enterprises The 4 key government partnership goals and the roles that social enterprises need to play in meeting these goals: a) Clear the path: engaging with governments to seek informal permission or permits and avoiding potential barriers. b) Outsourcing: having the government partners outsource the delivery of a certain product/ service through a contract. c) Adoption: working with the government partners to transition or transfer the management of a service or solution over a period. d) Change policy: influencing the government to change policies, allocate resources or change regulations Why social enterprises need to adapt their staffing based on the needs of the government partnership. Having local staff who understand the local context and who ideally have already existing established relationships with the governments, is critical to having a successful social enterprise-government partnership. Erin talks about specific examples such as WSUP, Village Reach that have adapted their staffing model to address local contexts, government relationship management, and leadership to influence policy change. Why it is important for social enterprises to know when to start engaging with government partners, i.e. start with a fully formed solution based on evidence that it works (building and proving the model first) or start with an idea of building together with the government? Build first or build together? Finally, we look at the risks and challenges that could become stumbling blocks for social enterprises while engaging with governments, such as slow pace of government, political and leadership change, corruption, decrease in impact, etc., and how should social enterprises deal with such challenges or mitigate the occurrences of such risks. Links to Resources: The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship Scaling Pathways: Leveraging Government Partnerships Scaling Pathways Organizations mentioned in the podcast: VillageReach, Partners In Health, Code for America, Pratham Connect with Erin: Erin on LinkedIn Erin on Twitter
Gary Gottlieb, CEO of Partners In Health, joins Steve and Trevor on this episode of A Healthy Dose.
Paul is the CTO of Lola.com, the easiest way for a business to manage their employee travel. Previously, Paul was CTO of KAYAK, a travel company he co-founded in 2004, took public in 2012, and sold to Priceline in 2013. Paul is also the founder of GetHuman, a service created to give consumers excellent customer service at any company.Paul grew up in Boston (as did his parents), his father was a pipefitter at Boston Gas Company, Paul's first job was delivering the Boston Globe, and he went to Boston public schools until he studied music and computer science at UMASS Boston. (As you can guess, Paul is a Boston Red Sox fan, and his accent gets worse in bahs.)Paul is the subject of Tracy Kidder's book “A Truck Full of Money”, published by Random House in September 2016. Which tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim's journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it's an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observes: “Someday this boy's going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I'm going to be standing beside him.” Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars—the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: “What else would you do with it?” The second thing he thinks is, What's next?Nonprofit WorkPaul is cofounder of Summits Education, an organization that is building education systems in rural Haiti. Summits operates a network of 41 schools in Haiti's Central Plateau, employing over 350 educators, and serving 10,000 students. Paul first went to Haiti in 2003. (Paul wè bote ak espwa.)Paul is a Director of Partners In Health and of Village Health Works, both organizations providing quality healthcare to populations of extreme poverty. Paul is also very interested in problems of homelessness in Boston.Paul's latest project is to bring an MLK Memorial to Boston.Ancient HistoryPaul was previously President of Boston Light Software, an ecommerce company sold to Intuit, where Paul then served as VP Technology. Paul was a cofounder/Director (with his brother Ed) of Intermute, a security software company sold to Trend Micro. Paul was briefly an entrepreneur in-residence at Greylock, the founder of the World Xiangqi League, VP of Engineering at NetCentric, SVP of Engineering and Product Management at Interleaf. He also did contract programming for the US Air Force, operations research programming for Data General, programming for a medical device company, and even some video game software and sound-effect development.Paul received a BS and MS in computer science from University of Massachusetts. Paul was named Chief Technology Officer of the year by Mass Technology Leadership Council in 2009. - http://paulenglish.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast
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.
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