In memoriam: Susan Curren

Susan Curren, left, on a 2007 Harvard AIDS Initiative trip to Botswana. At right is Sheila Tlou, who was Botswana's Minister of Health at the time.
Susan Curren, left, on a 2007 Harvard AIDS Initiative trip to Botswana. At right is Sheila Tlou, who was Botswana’s Minister of Health at the time.

“When Susan and I first became involved with the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, we thought that the work they were doing in Africa was extraordinary. Rather than simply sending help, they were training local people to fight the disease in their own communities. Susan was thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to Botswana on a Dean’s Trip with our daughter Marissa to see concrete evidence of what HAI has accomplished. The Susan McGarry Curren Fund for Maternal and Child Health in Africa will help train more African health care workers to better serve their communities and to help reduce the incidence of AIDS. It is a wonderful program in Susan’s memory that is going to make a difference in the lives of many, many people.”

Tom Curren