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Physician and medical anthropologist; co-founder of Partners In Health
United States · 1959–2022
American infectious-disease physician and anthropologist who co-founded Partners In Health in 1987 and built community-based treatment programmes for tuberculosis and HIV in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and Russia. He chaired the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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I think a lot of people, when they’re really young, and in their 20s, they are on their own quest for personal efficacy. And I understand that. ... But the sooner that people can discover that it’s really about building teams, and not about personal efficacy, I think the better — the more quickly — we can move forward. I believe that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗
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