A $50 cardinal donation from the Cummings Foundation volition make the Paul Farmer Collaborative, an planetary concern betwixt Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity, a wellness sciences school successful Rwanda co-founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, the precocious planetary wellness champion.
The donation, which volition beryllium paid implicit 10 years, volition money exchanges of faculty, students, and researchers betwixt the 2 institutions with the extremity of creating much equitable and sustainable planetary wellness systems. It volition besides money an yearly planetary wellness league and make objective grooming opportunities for aesculapian students focused connected serving communities with constricted resources.
Farmer was the Kolokotrones University Professor astatine Harvard University and seat of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine astatine HMS. He is besides the cofounder of Partners In Health, the planetary wellness and quality rights enactment that created UGHE successful 2015, and was serving arsenic chancellor of UGHE erstwhile helium died past February successful Rwanda.
“This is thing Paul fought for for truthful long, the quality for our astonishing colleagues passim the satellite to beryllium capable to stock their expertise,” said Dr. Sheila Davis, the CEO of Partners successful Health. “Our students being the beneficiaries of this speech is simply a unsocial solemnisation of Paul’s life.”
UGHE, based successful Butaro, Rwanda, pairs aesculapian grooming with quality rights and societal justness education. Students tin gain bachelor’s degrees successful medicine and country and master’s degrees successful planetary wellness delivery, among different offerings.
“During his all-too-brief clip present with us, Paul was the captious carnal nexus betwixt Harvard and UGHE,” said Joyce Cummings, cofounder of the Cummings Foundation and a adjacent person of Farmer’s, successful a statement. “In Paul’s absence, it is captious that we enactment to guarantee that this enslaved and his enactment endure.”
The assemblage was launched with important enactment from the Cummings Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Republic of Rwanda, which donated onshore and built caller roads for its agrarian campus.
The assemblage is presently led by erstwhile World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, who succeeded Farmer arsenic chancellor. Kim was besides a cofounder of Partners successful Health and, similar Farmer, earned his MD and PhD astatine Harvard Medical School.
This is 1 of the Cummings Foundation’s largest gifts, matching lone a $50 cardinal committedness to Tufts University successful 2004, according to Joyce Vyriotes, enforcement manager of the Cummings Foundation.
In summation to the $50 cardinal gift, the instauration has besides contributed $2 cardinal for the operation of a residential installation astatine UGHE to location visiting module connected its campus.
Zeina Mohammed tin beryllium reached astatine zeina.mohammed@globe.com. Follow her connected Twitter @_ZeinaMohammed.
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