June 4, 2009
Global health pioneer Paul Farmer to speak on June 18
Dr. Paul Farmer, featured in the biography Mountains Beyond Mountains and one of the pioneers in improving health services in the developing world, will speak on campus Thursday, June 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in 130 Kane as part of the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series. The event, “A Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer Moderated by Dr. Chris Elias,” is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.
Farmer is the founding director of Partners in Health, a groundbreaking non-governmental agency seeking equitable health care for all, and the newly named chairman of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Link to poster: http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/print/wgha_lecture_june18.pdf.
