The 4th Annual MD/PhD Student Research Symposium was held on Friday March 16, 2012. The keynote speaker was Paul Farmer, MD., PhD. Chair, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief, Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston. The keynote talk which was held in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, Apex Auditorium, was widely attended by the Medical School leadership, including Deans Pascal Goldschmidt and Laurence Gardener, MD/PhD students, faculty and medical school students.
Dr. Farmer who is also the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton delivered the keynote talk titled “Community-based care for infectious diseases and the future of antibiotic resistance”. In speaking about his work in Rwanda and Haiti he reinforced that all human beings regardless of economic and social differences should have access to quality health care. He also reiterated the importance of the community-based workers in the delivery of health care and has been able to successfully demonstrate that with proper treatment modality, directly observed therapy and top-of-the-line therapeutics, patients are able to achieve better efficacy regarding HAART therapeutics for the treatment of HIV and recently cholera. more.....
