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- Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder, Chief Strategist, Chair of the Board of Trustees, anthropologist, physician, and author, discusses the crucial and genuine partnerships that can bolster health systems.
- What is the role of donors to help bring these health partnerships to fruition or strengthen existing collaborative practices in health systems?
- Here are some insights into effective health funding.
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Strengthening health systems comes down to staff, stuff, space, systems and support. Whether providing primary care or responding to deadly outbreaks of infectious diseases, a holistic approach that places the patient and their community at the center of care and treatment is essential. In this episode, Dr. Paul Farmer and I discuss how human connection and authentic partnership should remain at the center of public health and human development work.
Dr. Paul Farmer is the Co-Founder, Chief Strategist and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Partners in Health, and a medical anthropologist, physician and author. His most recent book is Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. His positive approach to disrupting under-resourced and poorly performing health systems is simple yet holistic: Address unmet needs for staff, stuff, space, systems and support.
Read the full article about partnerships in public health by Patrick Fine at degrees.