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Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), former Minister of Health of France, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo, will deliver the lecture, "From Doctors Without Borders to Patients Without Borders." The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and the Department of Social Medicine at HMS are sponsors. Serving as a respondent to Kouchner’s comments will be Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley professor of social medicine at HMS and co-founder of Partners In Health, a non-profit organization that focuses on health crises in poor and sick communities. Like HSPH Professor Jack Spengler, Farmer has just received an award from the Heinz Family Foundation. Farmer was recognized for his efforts to raise health care standards in developing countries. The Jonathan Mann Lecture is named after the founder and first director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. Mann joined the HSPH faculty in 1990, serving as the first François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor from 1993 to 1997. He was particularly interested in the effects of health policies on human rights, the health effects of human rights violations, and the connection between promoting and protecting health and rights. On September 2, 1998, Mann and his wife, Mary Lou Clements-Mann, were killed in the crash of Swissair Flight 111. They were en route to Geneva for an AIDS meeting at the World Health Organization. Said FXB Center Director Stephen Marks: "Jonathan had the vision to recognize that ultimately public health and human rights share a common challenge–ensuring the conditions in which people can be healthy–and that in order to meet this challenge, we must first speak to and learn from one another and then act together. This is the idea we want to perpetuate through the Jonathan Mann Lectures." The event is the first in what will become a regular event commemorating Mann. Harvard Public Health NOW is published biweekly by the Office of Communications Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Ave., SPH 1-1312A Boston, Massachusetts 02115 617-432-6052 Editor and Layout: Christina Roache Photos Credits: Suzanne Camarata, Christina Roache, Academic Press, Richard Chase Archived Issues || HSPH Home Copyright, 2009, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
