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Paul Farmer, MD,
PhD, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder, Program In Infectious Disease
and Social Change with young boy in Haiti.
The Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change (PIDSC) is committed
to community-based efforts to prevent and treat infectious disease in
communities where they are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality
both in the U.S. and abroad. PIDSC is closely affiliated with the non-profit
organization, Partners In Health (PIH), www.pih.org, which has community-based
sister organizations in: Haiti (Zanmi Lasante); Peru (Socios En Salud);
Mexico (EAPSAC); and the United States (Prevention and Access to Care
and Treatment). Under the direction of physicians-anthropologists Paul
Farmer and Jim Kim, PIDSC works closely with colleagues and local leaders
in the home communities of PIH's sister organizations to reduce morbidity
and mortality due to infectious diseases. PIDSC has developed extensive
experience and engaged medical students, residents, and post-doctoral
fellows in the treatment and control of infectious diseases in underserved
communities around the world.
PIDSC's relationship
with PIH has allowed its research to be closely linked to on-going service
projects in the Boston area, the Caribbean and Latin America. These
include:
· Research on the dynamics of infectious diseases of global importance.
While the program has many ongoing research interests, it builds upon
major research and service efforts designed to control tuberculosis
and HIV disease.
· Training of students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows
in infectious diseases.
· International training fellowships for front-line health workers
and others actively delivering health care services at the community
level.
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