A Record of Leadership
DGHE itself grew out of work started by Drs. Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim more than twenty years ago, when they joined with colleagues to open a medical clinic in desperately impoverished rural Haiti. Their goal was to bring the best in modern medicine to those most in need. Their premise was that every life is worth saving. From these beginnings, Farmer and Kim founded Partners In Health, a private charity which has grown to provide top quality medical care and social services to over one million poor patients in Haiti and to thousands more in Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Malawi, Lesotho and inner city Boston.
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A Commitment to the Health of the World’s Poor In 2001, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a major Harvard teaching hospital, launched a pioneering effort to prevent millions of senseless deaths from treatable, avoidable diseases. Called the Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE), the mission of this new enterprise would be to improve the health of the poor through service, training, research and advocacy. In creating DGHE, Brigham and Women’s affirmed the right of all patients—wherever they are—to the best in modern medicine.
Critical Needs
Generous start-up support from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has helped give DGHE a strong beginning. However, as with almost anything involving the world’s poor, DSMHI is uniquely dependant on private philanthropy just to maintain existing programs.
Donors can support DGHE in several ways: by helping fund young doctors working abroad and by helping fund innovative programs that train new physicians who have chosen a life of work with the poor. They can also support the PACT Project for Boston's sickest AIDS patients.
The Hatch Scholars program is DGHE’s main source of financial support for its physicians working abroad and in poor communities here at home. The program provides funding for young DGHE doctors who are following in the footsteps of Jim Kim and Paul Farmer by dedicating their careers to the treatment and study of diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poor. Learn more…
The Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine is a comprehensive four-year program that includes training in internal medicine; coursework in research methods, public policy and global health advocacy; and research and patient care experiences in impoverished settings. Learn more…
You can assist our efforts by making a gift online and designating your gift to the Division of Global Health Equity. Please click on the link above and fill out the online donation form. In order for your gift to be received by the Division, you must click "Other" under the statement "Please use my/our gift" and type "Division of Global Health Equity" in the box. You may also send a check.
Please make your check payable to Brigham and Women's Hospital with a notation on the check or an enclosed note directing your gift to the Division of Global Health Equity. Checks may be mailed to:
Jennifer Watson
BWH Division of Global Health Equity
FXB Building, 7th Floor
651 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
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