Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Medicine Grand Rounds - Haiti after the Earthquake: A Reflection 10 Years, March 6, 2020, 3/6/2020 8:00:00 AM - 3/6/2023 9:00:00 AM, Dr. Farmer describes his experiences in Haiti, beginning in 1983 with a group of displaced and impoverished persons, followed quickly by the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the devastating earthquake in 2010. The population and legislative responses were similar in each instance, and learning from his experience, Dr. Farmer supports a community based healthcare delivery model that works in collaboration with academic medicine. He has witnessed devastating trauma as well as the recovery that is possible when humanity is respected and the status quo is challenged.
Presenter
Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD
Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University
Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Co-founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health
About our presenter: Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), and has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Farmer holds an MD and PhD from Harvard University and serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to discuss Haiti’s healthcare system pre- and post-earthquake, highlighting the transformation in the last ten years, and apply lessons learned in Haiti to other disaster or health epidemic situations.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for Haiti after the Earthquake: A Reflection 10 Years, March 6, 2020 (Medicine Grand Rounds) have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Activity Director and Planning Committee member roles were resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by the Associate Dean for CME and the Department of Medicine Chair. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Kelly Kieffer, MD ~ her spouse is a consultant for OcculoBio.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Baranova (research grant to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
Presenter
Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD
Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University
Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Co-founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health
About our presenter: Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), and has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Farmer holds an MD and PhD from Harvard University and serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti.
Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to discuss Haiti’s healthcare system pre- and post-earthquake, highlighting the transformation in the last ten years, and apply lessons learned in Haiti to other disaster or health epidemic situations.
Disclosure
In accordance with the disclosure policy of Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education and the Nursing Continuing Education Council standards set forth by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation, continuing medical education and nursing education activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have been asked to disclose any financial relationship* they have to a commercial interest (any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients). Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given activity.
The following Activity Physician Director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for Haiti after the Earthquake: A Reflection 10 Years, March 6, 2020 (Medicine Grand Rounds) have reported the following financial interest or relationship* with various companies/organizations. The Activity Director and Planning Committee member roles were resolved by altering the individual’s control over content about the products or services of the commercial interest by the Associate Dean for CME and the Department of Medicine Chair. All potential conflict(s) were resolved.
* Kelly Kieffer, MD ~ her spouse is a consultant for OcculoBio.
* Richard I. Rothstein, MD ~ has research support from Baranova (research grant to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Allurion.
Other planning committee member(s), speaker(s), activity director(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this program report no financial interest or relationship* with any company(ies) or organizations whose product may be germane to the content of their presentations.
*A “financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.
