Dr. Paul Farmer, featured in the biography Mountains Beyond Mountains and one of the pioneers in improving health services in the developing world, will speak on campus Thursday, June 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in 130 Kane as part of the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series. The event, “A Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer Moderated by Dr. Chris Elias,” is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.
Farmer is the founding director of Partners in Health, a groundbreaking non-governmental agency seeking equitable health care for all, and the newly named chairman of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Link to poster: http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/print/wgha_lecture_june18.pdf.