Upcoming events:

June 23, 6:30 pm, New York, NY – Evan Lyon and Donna Barry of PIH and Loune Viaud of Zanmi Lasante will join colleagues from the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice to launch Wòch Nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti—a jointly authored report that documents the devastating consequences of the failure of the Inter-American Development Bank to disburse $54 million in life-saving loans for water and sanitation improvements.

August 26, 8:00 am EST, Online – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee will be a speaker for the HOPE Conference Series, a series of interactive conferences that take place over the internet. Participants from around the world will take part in real-time discussions on HIV issues in resource-scarce settings.

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

Recent PIH Events

May 31 through June 7, Across Canada –The Canada Haiti Action Network hosted a series of events to launch Peter Hallward's searing new book Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment. The author spoke in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. "Damming the Flood is an excellent book, the best study of its kind," said PIH co-founder Paul Farmer. "It offers the first accurate analysis of recent Haitian history, and of its history in the making." Click here for more information and the tour schedule.

June 1, Princeton, NJ – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer delivered the Baccalaureate address for Princeton University.

May 17, New Orleans, LA – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer delivered the commencement address for Tulane Medical School.

May 13, 7:00 pm, Shrewsbury, MA – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer spoke at Saint John's High School for the Abdella Center for Ethics Lecture.

May 9, 3:30 pm, Chicago, IL – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee delivered the 2008 commencement address for the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

May 9, 12:00 pm, Chicago, IL – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee delivered a keynote speech at the 2008 Student Diversity Conference at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The conference theme for this year was "A Diverse Profession: Social Work in the Twenty-first Century." Her talk focused on how PIH addresses social problems.

May 5, National Public Radio – NPR's On Point interviewed PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee about the food crisis situation in Haiti. Listen to the segment.

May 4, 7:00 pm EDT/PDT, CBS network TV – Partners In Health will be featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Find out more.

May 1, 7:00 pm, Milton, MA – Evan Lyon, a physician who works with PIH projects in Haiti, spoke about his work with Zanmi Lasante at an event organized by Milton Public Schools to celebrate Haitian and Caribbean culture.

April 30, 12:00 pm, New York, NY – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer spoke at New York University. His presentation was part of NYU's Reynolds Speaker Series for Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.

April 28, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm, Minneapolis, MN – PIH Advocacy Director Donna Barry joined a panel discussion on innovative approaches to the global AIDS epidemic. The panel was part of a town meeting with Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) at the University of Minnesota.

April 27, 10:30 am, Brookline, MA – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer received the All Saints Parish 2008 Spirituality and Justice Award during Sunday services at All Saints Parish, Brookline.

April 27, 10:00 am, Chicago, IL – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee spoke at the American Physician Scientists Association Annual Meeting. The theme for her talk was "Research-Based Advocacy: Lessons from the Field."

April 19, 9:30 am, Cambridge, MA – PIH co-founder Paul Farmer was a keynote speaker at a three-day conference organized by the Global Poverty Initiative at MIT.

April 17, 7:00 pm, Laramie, WY – PIH Vice President of Development Ed Cardoza spoke at the University of Wyoming's AIDS Awareness Week.

April 17, 11:30 am, Jamaica Plain, MA – PIH Medical Director Joia Mukherjee spoke about how challenges in treating and preventing TB around the world impacts Massachusetts. The talk was part of a day-long event to recognize World Health Month, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Diversity Council, and was in the auditorium of the State Laboratory Institute.

April 15, 4:30 pm, Hanover, NH – Phuoc Le spoke on "Understanding Global Health Equity" at Dartmouth University's Haldeman Center. Phuoc is a resident in Global Health Equity, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. As part of his residency, he spends a significant amount of his time working in Sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with PIH.

April 12, 10:20 am, New Haven, CT – PIH Co-founder Jim Yong Kim spoke at the Unite for Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conferece. The title of his talk was "Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health."

April 11-13, Austin, TX – The annual Face AIDS conference took place in Austin Texas. Dr. Henry Epino, the medical director for PIH Rwanda, was keynote speaker.

April 8, 6:30 pm, Hackensack, NJ – PIH Advocacy Director Donna Barry spoke about her experiences working with PIH and managing projects in Russia, Haiti and Boston. The event was held at the Bergen County Academies Auditorium.

April 5, 12:30 pm, Cambridge, MA – The Fifth Annual Urban Walk for Haiti was organized to raise awareness about Haiti and funds for Partners In Health.

April 3-5, Evanston, IL – The GlobeMed Global Health Summit brought together students from universities across the country for three days of lectures, workshops, and discussions with leading professionals in the field of global health. The theme of the summit was A Generational Calling: Solidarity in Global Health. Speakers included PIH Vice President fo Development Ed Cardoza and Evan Lyon, a physician working with PIH projects in Haiti.

April 1, 3:00 pm, New York, NY – PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim participated on a panel at the UN General Assembly Thematic Debate on the Millennium Development Goals.

Archive of past events