Upcoming events:

November 29, 2008 to January 4, 2009, Chicago, IL – Loyola University Museum of Art will be home to On the Same Map: Hope is a Human Right - A photographic journey. PIH's exhibition of photographs depicting the clinics and communities where PIH has forged partnerships with patients and local health workers to combat AIDS, tuberculosis, hunger, poverty and injustice over the past 20 years. This exhibition is open to the public, for more information visit the Loyola University Museum of Art website.

December 8, 2008, 12:00–1:30 pm, Boston, MA – US Senator John F. Kerry will be the keynote speaker at the HIV/AIDS & Right to Health: Leadership in the US and Globally Town Hall Meeting, held at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim will also participate in the discussion, alongside a cadre of passionate professionals.This event is open to the public though attendees are asked to RSVP by December 5th.

December 12, 2008, 12:00–1:00 pm, Boston, MA – PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim will be this year’s Victor Dzau Lecturer in Global Health Equity, along with commentary from Paul Farmer. Kim’s lecture will be titled "Redefining Global Health Care" and it will be open to the public and will be held in the Bornstein Amphitheater at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

December 13, 2008, 1:30 pm, Brooksville, FL – PIH co-founder Paul Famer will be honored as the 2008 Great Brooksvillian, in Paul's hometown of Brooksville. There will events going on the entire day starting with a book signing of Tracy Kidder's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains at 1:30 pm, the Great Brooksvillian Award presentation at 4:30 pm, and a dinner to benefit PIH at 5:30 pm.

January 19, 2009, 1:00 pm, Boston, MA – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer will join students, faculty, and staff at Boston University's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration to examine inequality, injustice, and human rights violations in the 21st annual. The celebration is to be held in the George Sherman Union's Metcalf Hall and will be free and open to the public. More details.

March 20, 2009, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands – David Walton, a physician working with PIH projects in Haiti, will speak about PIH's work in Haiti and issues faced by the impoverished communities he works with. The event is part of the Dr. Alfred O. Heath Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of the Virgin Islands.

March 28, 2009, 6:00-9:00 pm, Williamsburg, VA – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee will present PIH's work on women's health at the American Medical Women's Association annual meeting. This will be a dinner event, and tickets must be purchased to attend. More info to come.

April 21, 2009, Elizabethtown, PA – PIH co-founder Jim Kim will speak at Elizabethtown College at their second annual Scholarship and Creative Arts Day. The theme of the event is “Changing the World One Idea at a Time", which is a centered around encouraging students to embrace their scholarship and artistic expression as the framework for choosing their purposeful life work, like Jim Kim has done. This event is open to the public, and there will be more information to come.

Recent PIH Events

November 3, 2008, 2:00 pm, San Francisco, CA – Global Health Equity Resident, Dr. Phuoc V. Le , MD, MPH, was at the University of San Francisco's School of Medicine to discuss how PIH acts as an agent of change, and its vision to rapidly scale up a “rights based” model of comprehensive primary care in several Sub-Saharan African nations in a disucssion about global equity. More information.

October 31, 7:30 pm, Cambridge, MA – 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee John Dear spoke about his new autobiography A Persistant Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World, at St. Paul Parish (29 Mt. Auburn St.) and PIH co-founder Paul Farmer will introduced this inspirational peace activist. There was a book signing afterwards. More information.

October 30, 8:30 am, Minneapolis, MN – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee delivered the keynote address for the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers annual conference. The conference was entitled "Many Faces of Community Health – Meeting the Needs of the Underserved."

September 3 to October 23, New York, NY   "On the Same Map," a photo exhibit that documents and celebrates PIH's work, was on display on the second floor of the Kimmel Center at New York University. The exhibit was created to mark the 20th anniversary of PIH's founding. From the barren hills of Haiti, to the shantytowns of Peru, from the villages of rural Rwanda to the streets of downtown Boston, the photographs illuminate how communities that suffer the most glaring health, social, and economic disparities in the world can be revived when the individuals living in them have access to health, social and economic support, and training.

October 27, 8:30-10:30 am, Ottowa, Canada – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer served as a keynote speaker at the 15th Annual Canadian Conference on International Health which took place in Ottawa from October 26th to the 29th. Specifically, he took part in a plenary session with the theme of 'Lessons from the International Stage'. Read more about the Canadian Society for International Health.

September 2-October 15, Bozeman, MT – "On the Same Map," a photo exhibit that documents and celebrates PIH's work, was on display at the Bozeman Public Library in conjuntion with the "One Book – One Bozeman" community-wide read of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains.

October 15, 6-8 pm, Boston, MA – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherje was a participant on a panel sponsored by Boston University School of Medicine’s chapter of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). As a part of the panel titled “Medical Activism: Then and Now”, Joia reflected on the role that activism has played in her career as a physician and discuss the importance of activism in medicine today. This event was held at the Boston University School of Medicine.

October 14, 6:00-9:00 pm, New York, NY –2007 marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of PIH and to mark the occasion, PIH partnered with the NYU Master's Program in Global Public Health to mount another striking portrayal of its work -­ an exhibit of striking photographs. To commemorate the anniversary and the exhibit at NYU, PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee and PIH Vice President for Development, Edward Cardoza joined together for an evening presentation. The events took place at the NYU Kimmel Center.

October 11, 7 pm, Clemson, SC – Paul Farmer was the guest speaker for The William H. Hunter, M.D. Endowed Lecture entitled, "Health Care Disparities and Delivery in Rural Haiti: Mountains Beyond Mountains" which was be held in the Brooks Theatre at Clemson University. There was also be a book signing after the presentation hosted by the Clemson University Bookstore.

October 4, 3-5 pm, Cambridge, MA – PIH's 15th annual Thomas J. White Symposium brought together PIH staff, family, friends and fellow activists and advocates for health and social justice for the poor. View last year's Symposium.

September 17, 3-5 pm, Cambridge, MA – PIH co-founders Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim moderated a panel to celebrate Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, now available online in open-access format. Panelists included: Philip Alston Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law School; Agnes Binagwaho, Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission; and Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine. The event took place at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA.

September 22, Noon, San Antonio, TX – PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer and journalist Tracy Kidder both spoke at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UT HSC) for the Frank Bryant Jr MD Distinguished Lecture. Kidder's best-selling book Mountains Beyond Mountains, tells the story of the work of Dr. Farmer and and the founding of Partners In Health. The event was part of UT HSC's One Community One Book, and was co-sponsored by the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics. More information and about the event.

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