--- title: Paul Farmer Symposium description: Accompaniment was central to Dr. Paul Farmer's vision for global health equity. This panel will explore how accompaniment remains vital in advancing global health equity today. image: https://act.pih.org/hubfs/E-newsletter/paul-memorial-image-675x675.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://act.pih.org/symposium-livestream-2024#main-content) [![Partners in Health](https://act.pih.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Partners%20in%20Health/images/logos/PIH_Logo_Primary--Orange.png)](https://pih.org/) Injustice has a cure [Donate Now](https://act.pih.org/?form=donate&hsLang=en) # The Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity Livestream: The Audacity of Accompaniment   ![2024 Symposium Big-Horizontal](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/2024%20Symposium%20Big-Horizontal.png?width=200&height=92&name=2024%20Symposium%20Big-Horizontal.png "2024 Symposium Big-Horizontal") ![Symposium Pattern Harvard RED](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Pattern%20Harvard%20RED.png?width=2000&height=92&name=Symposium%20Pattern%20Harvard%20RED.png "Symposium Pattern Harvard RED") Join us here on November 19 for the Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity: *The Audacity of Accompaniment*. Accompaniment, a concept championed by Dr. Paul Farmer, reflects a commitment to walk alongside those we serve, fostering solidarity and partnership on the path to justice. His legacy as an accompagnateur continues to inspire efforts to create a more equitable world. We invite you to the 2024 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity, where engaging panel discussions and a keynote address will explore how accompaniment continues to guide and strengthen our collective work.   This year's theme of accompaniment was inspired by Dr. Arthur Kleinman's article, *Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment*. You can read it here: [Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment | Think Global Health](https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/paul-farmer-and-audacity-accompaniment). # Livestream Having trouble viewing the livestream? Please refresh the page and ensure you have accepted all cookies to access the video. Alternatively, watch the livestream on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo83Zw1lq1o).  # Symposium Schedule ### 1:00 p.m.  Livestream opens  ### 1:30 p.m.  Welcome ### 1:45 p.m.  Accompaniment in Clinical Care Panel ### 2:35 p.m.  Accompaniment in Teaching and Research Panel ### 3:30 p.m.  Accompaniment in Action Keynote ### 4:30 p.m.  Event concludes ### *\*Timing subject to change* # Program Descriptions ## Accompaniment in Clinical Care Panel Clinicians have the unique opportunity to accompany patients through their care journey. This type of accompaniment requires empathy, active listening, and advocacy to do whatever it takes to help them reach good health. Join us as we explore the power of accompaniment in addressing patients’ needs globally. Moderator: Joia Mukherjee Panelists: Ingrid Katz, Melino Ndayizigiye, Vicky Reed, and Brian Remillard  ## Accompaniment in Teaching and Research Panel From Boston to Butaro and beyond, accompaniment is being taught and modeled to the next generation of global health leaders. Join us for a discussion on the importance and place of accompaniment within academia, where the seeds planted through teaching and research bear fruit in the future of patient care, advocacy, and global health policy change. Moderator: Dan Palazuelos Panelists: Satchit Balsari, Carole Mitnick, and Steve Reifenberg ## Accompaniment in Action Keynote Dr. Jim O’Connell, President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, will share his experience of accompaniment in action through his work at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and explore how that work aligns with larger efforts to ensure the right to health for all.   # Speakers **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Satchit Balsari](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Satchit%20Balsari.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Satchit%20Balsari.png)Satchit Balsari MD, MPH; Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Co-director, CrisisReady at HDSI and Direct Relief** Dr. Balsari’s team studies public health emergencies. The Balsari Lab ([balsarilab.com](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__balsarilab.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=xBV3qw71QZjFpwIwhir9-cs5T8FBc5vhw9cTBJkwI6Q&m=TJa-6CfzX9gGZSj7XKfNePrJcqqmAIrZrqkg5w5205cq_nq8BHjjUkV6EXYXofXU&s=aLXNnQAI_JsY53HK_o8LKTQCqdb9HrimVnCmSSYEXhY&e=)) leverages mobile technologies and data science to close information asymmetries in at-risk communities. Co-leading an interdisciplinary team, he is currently studying the impact and implications of heat in the lived environments of women workers in India’s informal labor economy. A multi-media exhibition he curated, based on his research on the impact of the pandemic on the poor, is currently on global tour.  **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Ingrid Katz](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Ingrid%20Katz.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Ingrid%20Katz.png)Ingrid Katz MD, MHS; Director for Behavioral Sciences and Country Chair for Cameroon, PEPFAR, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital  ** Dr. Ingrid Katz is the Director for Behavioral Sciences at the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the Bureau for Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the U.S. Department of State. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Katz received her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco, and MHS from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.   **![JYK](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/JYK.png?width=150&height=150&name=JYK.png)Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD; Vice Chairman and Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners; Co-Founder, Partners In Health ** Dr. Jim Yong Kim is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners. Kim co-founded PIH, where he developed treatment programs for MDR-TB and AIDS in Haiti, Peru, and several other countries. From 2003 to 2005, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. In 2009, he was named the 17th President of Dartmouth College. Pres. Barack Obama nominated Kim to become the 12th President of the World Bank Group, a position he held from July 2012 to February 2019. **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Carole Mitnick](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Carole%20Mitnick.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Carole%20Mitnick.png)Carole Mitnick MD; Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Senior Research Associate, Partners In Health** Dr. Mitnick has worked in partnership with PIH for more than 25 years to improve the quality of, and access to, care for tuberculosis. This work spans conduct of observational research and clinical trials conducted with priority placed on accompaniment of study participants, research teams; as well as advocacy, activism, and delivery that bring the fruits of the research to those most in need.    **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Joia Mukherjee,](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Joia%20Mukherjee%2c.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Joia%20Mukherjee%2c.png)Joia Mukherjee MD, MPH; Director and Advisory Dean, F.W. Peabody Society, Harvard Medical School; Director, Master in Medical Science in Global Health Delivery, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health ** Dr. Joia Mukherjee is an internist, pediatrician, public health specialist, and human rights advocate who directs the Global Health Delivery master’s program at Harvard. Her work spans multiple countries, focusing on health care and social programs. Dr. Mukherjee serves as Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health, advisory dean of the F.W. Peabody Society at Harvard Medical School, and is the author of *An Introduction to Global Health Delivery: Practice, Equity, Human Rights*.  **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Melino Ndayizigiye](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Melino%20Ndayizigiye.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Melino%20Ndayizigiye.png)Melino Ndayizigiye MD, MMSc in Global Health Delivery; Executive Director, Partners In Health Lesotho ** Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye is the Executive Director of Partners In Health Lesotho. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the WHO foundation and serves PIH and the Lesotho Ministry of Health through the National Oxygen Task Force; TB, HIV and health system strengthening; and the Global Oxygen Alliance Country Planning and Implementation Working Group. Dr. Melino graduated from the University of Burundi Faculty of Medicine and holds a Masters of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery from Harvard University.  **![Symposium Headshot Circle](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle.png)Jim O'Connell MD; President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School** Dr. Jim O’Connell, MD, serves as the President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He established the nation’s first medical respite program in 1985 and designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program. He served as the National Program Director of the Homeless Families Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Dan Palazuelos](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Dan%20Palazuelos.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Dan%20Palazuelos.png)Dan Palazuelos MD, MPH; Assistant Director, Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director for Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Director, Office for Community Centered Medical Education, Harvard Medical School  ** Dr. Daniel Palazuelos is a community health implementer-educator who holds positions at Harvard Medical School (HMS), the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and Partners In Health (PIH). His unified goal across these roles is to assure that our finest clinicians are trained to understand the community perspective, and our health care system strengthening efforts are aligned to the real needs of people living in the poorest and most difficult circumstances.  **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Vicky Reed](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Vicky%20Reed.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Vicky%20Reed.png)Vicky Reed MSN, RN; Executive Director, Partners In Health Sierra Leone ** Vicky Reed is the Executive Director of Partners in Health Sierra Leone (PIH-SL), where she is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the organization’s operations in Sierra Leone. Prior to her current role, she served as PIH-SL’s Director of Nursing. Reed has been a registered nurse for over 10 years, with specialties in medical-surgical nursing, emergency nursing, neuro-critical care and nursing leadership.  **![Brian Remillard](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Brian%20Remillard.png?width=150&height=150&name=Brian%20Remillard.png)Brian Remillard MD; Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Adjuvant Faculty, Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais ** Dr. Brian Remillard is the Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Adjuvant Faculty at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM) in Haiti. He was formerly the Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension at Dartmouth Health and the Director of Dialysis Programs at Dartmouth. Dr. Remillard helped develop care for patients with kidney diseases at HUM, including acute dialysis, with the goal of kidney transplantation in the future. **![Symposium Headshot Circle\_Steve Reifenberg](https://act.pih.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Steve%20Reifenberg.png?width=150&height=150&name=Symposium%20Headshot%20Circle_Steve%20Reifenberg.png)Steve Reifenberg Teaching Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame ** Steve Reifenberg is a Teaching Professor of International Development at Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. With extensive experience in Latin America, his work focuses on fostering collaboration and experiential learning in international development. 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