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What

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

A comprehensive approach will be used that begins with disease but proceeds to root causes (i.e. water and sanitation, food, education, poverty, etc.) to address major problems of the sick poor throughout the world. The idea is that there is a "know-do" gap in global health. Training and service delivery are the bottlenecks now, not knowledge. Therefore, education and networking will lead to improvements in the delivery of global health care and more lives saved.

Activities

Each year, over 150 health professionals from poor countries will attend two week global health "boot camps" and be supported by a long-term communications and technical assistance network after they return home.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $420
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $1,999,580
Total Funding Goal: $2,000,000

Additional Documentation

Resources

Why

Potential Long Term Impact

PIH intends to create a collaborative alumni network and new cadre of global health leaders capable of drawing on expanding knowledge. Young doctors can be matched with developing world leaders and travel with them to their home countires.

Project Message

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.”
- Dr. Paul Farmer, Founder, PIH

Who

Where

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Health.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When

Last Updated

This project was last updated on May 24, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 27, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Partners in Health update Q2 2007

By Tom Bird - , May 24, 2007 11:34 AM

The Global Health Project has benefited from a “listening tour” by Jim Kim as he has been out and about asking for feedback on the initial set of ideas. The team has assembled in the new Harvard School of Public Health FXB Center offices, and has started to generate a promising talent pipeline. Rebecca Weintraub has come on board to direct the project, coming from both an entrepreneurial background given her participation in the founding of the wildly successful nonprofit Jumpstart, and a healthcare pro given her experience at Brigham and Women’s as a physician.

The vision here has an academic hub component, a methodology/technology for collecting and disseminating the learning from the field, and actual projects on the ground that serve patient needs.

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