Paul Farmer Speaks Candidly About Foreign Aid

The cycle of poverty and disease can be broken through investment in public health systems, according to Dr. Paul Farmer, Harvard University professor and United Nations Special Adviser for Community-Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, and founder of Partners In Health. At a June 12, 2013 event at the Central European University (CEU), sponsored by the Open Society Foundations and CEU's School of Public Policy, Paul Farmer spoke from 25 years of experience in Haiti, Rwanda and other developing nations where he has built hospitals and helped generate astonishing improvements in public health.