MD Program

Global Programs

Global Health is a field of study addressing the health of populations in a global context and transcends the political boundaries of nations.
"It has been defined as 'the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide'." (CUGH 2011) Issues in the field include focus on social determinants of health, healthcare disparities including infectious and non-communicable disease issues, human rights as well as economic development, and policy and system issues. Students at the Carver College of Medicine have multiple ways to get involved with Global Health while in medical school. On campus electives, faculty based seminars, special speaker opportunities, community based electives and clerkships, faculty/alumni led sustained medical missions, student organizations (Global Medical Society and Student Physicians for Human Rights), campus wide, national and international conference involvement, academic exchanges, joint degrees, internships and fellowships, medical Spanish program, and Global Health Distinction Track. Our global programs involvement has stretched us from our home city across the world to over 50 nations.

To discuss how you can be involved, contact:
Robin Paetzold, Director
MERF 1187
robin-paetzold@uiowa.edu
353-5763

Interested in more information on Global Programs opportunities including scholarships, conferences, and specail events? Join our mailing list at:
http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/osac/student_orgs/mailing_lists.html 

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Dr. Paul Farmer Global Humanitarian, M.D. and Ph.D.  

Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and has undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, under Special Envoy Bill Clinton.

Dr. Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Malawi have pioneered novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality.

Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent books are Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader, andHaiti After the Earthquake, which will be out July 12. Other titles include Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, The Uses of Haiti, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame.

Dr. Farmer is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association,the Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award from the American Medical Association, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and, with his PIH colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

He is a member of teh Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.