News and Stories

Strengthening Community Health in Navajo Nation

This story originally appeared on the Brigham and Women’s Global Health Hub blog. Homes are isolated, with no running water and often no refrigeration. Heat is produced by a wood-burning stove in...

Rwanda Trains a New Generation of Cancer Nurses

With his warm, friendly smile, Jean Bosco Bigirimana is winning over a roomful of eager listeners with a presentation on the groundbreaking cancer care work he and his colleagues are doing in Rwanda...

MDR-TB in North Korea: A Q&A with PIH's Dr. KJ Seung

Dr. KJ Seung has traveled to North Korea seven times to help curb the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis. A new paper of his suggests rates of MDR-TB are far higher than current estimates.

University Hospital Shows that Aid Done Right in Haiti Improves Lives

Pragmatically, a human rights approach works better because it confronts difficult, interconnected problems with significant solutions, not small, cheap interventions.

Open-source EMR: A New Model for Evidence-based Health Care in Haiti

Partners In Health took on the herculean task of building an electronic medical record system for University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. More than 12,000 unique patients have already been...

Partnering with Dana-Farber in Rwanda

This article originally appeared on the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute Insight Blog. I recently returned from a three-month rotation as a nurse fellow at a comprehensive cancer center at Butaro...

Celebrating a Milestone in Rwanda’s Cancer Care

An email from Dr. Neo Tapela, director of noncommunicable diseases at Partners In Health, reflecting on first-year accomplishments at Rwanda's Butaro Cancer Center.

The Butaro Cancer Center at One Year

Fabrice’s mother struggled with her son’s diagnosis. She’d never met someone with cancer, and from what she’d heard, the diagnosis meant Fabrice would surely die.

Cancer Patient Receives First Surgery at University Hospital

While the procedure itself was fairly routine for the ZL clinicians—they’ve performed surgeries for many years in Cange—the experience of working in University Hospital’s operating room was something...

NCDsynergies Conference Kicking Off