How to Promote Global Health
A Foreign Affairs Roundtable
Article Summary and Author Biography
In this special Web feature, Paul Farmer, Jeffrey Sachs, Alex de Waal, Roger Bate & Kathryn Boateng, and Laurie Garrett discuss Garrett's essay "The Challenge of Global Health" and debate how best to help the world's poor and sick.
Paul Farmer is associate chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School; and a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity that provides health care to and undertakes research and advocacy on behalf of the sick and poor.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.
Roger Bate and Kathryn Boateng is a Resident Fellow and Kathryn Boateng is a Research Assistant at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Alex de Waal is program director at the Social Science Research Council and working group co-chair of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS.
Laurie Garrett is Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
