Dr. Paul Farmer, the founding director of Partners in Health, an organization that provides health care services and research focusing on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor, discusses how social forces contribute to disease burden and shape access to timely diagnoses and effective treatment through an examination of impoverished nations like rural Haiti and Rwanda. Series: “Voices” [2/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Business] [Show ID: 13977]

Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, explains the reasons for the school’s new name. Dennis and Joan Gillings add comments.

Joesph Morissey, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Management discusses caring for the mentally ill in North Carolina.

http://www.ted.com Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that — with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve — it’s possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world. Listen for some eye-opening statistics on heart disease, which is as ruthless a killer in poorer nations as in richer ones.