Medical Director of Partners in Health and Human Rights Activist
"On the Joy of Giving Back"
Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 11:10 a.m.
Joia S. Mukherjee trained in infectious disease, internal medicine, and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been involved in health care access and human rights issues since 1989. In July 2000, she joined the faculty of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she co-teaches courses on the effects of poverty on infectious diseases with Dr. Paul E. Farmer. She is medical director of Partners in Health and works in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, and Russia treating patients with tuberculosis and HIV while advocating for the equitable medical treatment of the poor. She consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing countries and divides her clinical time in Boston between Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She publishes on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings and on the epidemiologic impact of this work.
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