Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, and Nawal Nour, MD, MPH – some of the world’s biggest names in global health are participating in a panel discussion together for the first time at the Global Health Summit Nov. 25.

BWH, in partnership with Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, is hosting the summit  Nov. 25, 2 – 6:30 p.m. , at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur.

Global health experts from all three institutions will participate in panel discussions throughout the afternoon, culminating with the keynote panel and a reception. Check out the complete program and impressive panelist biographies here.

All are invited to attend, but space is limited. Please register online for each panel you would like to attend.

Housing for doctors at Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, supported by the Daniel E. Ponton Fund at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, has been awarded the Buro Happold Effectiveness Award by World Architecture News (WAN). The honor, part of the annual WAN Awards contest for excellence in architecture,  celebrates designs that have made a positive impact on society.

Three years ago, a group from Brigham and Women’s Hospital traveled to Butaro, Rwanda, to visit a newly built hospital supported by Partners In Health. The group included BWH President Betsy Nabel, Surgeon-in-Chief Michael Zinner, MD, and Daniel E. Ponton, philanthropist and co-owner of Club Colette who was successfully treated at BWH for a life-threatening brain tumor. Ponton saw how the housing shortage made it difficult to attract and retain qualified medical staff, and his foundation — the Daniel E. Ponton Fund at Brigham & Women’s Hospital—subsequently funded and built the Butaro Doctors’ Housing project, which was designed by the MASS Design Group.

All building materials were produced on site, and hundreds of workers were trained in masonry, carpentry and other skills. A goal of the housing project was to create a more sustainable rural health care system, and since the residences opened last fall, physicians from Rwanda and other countries have lived in the new housing while providing care at the hospital and educating the next generation of young Rwandan clinicians.

According to an editorial in World Architecture News announcing the winner, the judges were “won over by the care and attention paid to the Housing from the ground up – the use of local craftsmen, sustainable, local resources, and even the graceful final touches of interior decor.” Read the editorial.

On Nov. 21, Brigham and Women’s Hospital will host its second annual Research Day. This special event is a time for employees, visitors, media and the general public to engage with our research community and celebrate innovative and cutting-edge research at the hospital. The day will feature a plenary session with hospital leadership, nine research symposia, a scientific poster session and a keynote address by Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at BWH.

Learn more about Research Day.

BWH Physician Assistant Services is happy to provide an initial PA Services Grant for travel expenses related to medical missions in underserved areas. We know that the Physician Assistants across our campuses are dedicated to improving health care not only in our local BWH community but throughout the world, and we want to support these efforts.  This new grant created by PA Services is intended to support those PAs committed to providing health care, health education and health research to medically underserved populations. The grant is a travel stipend of $2000 awarded to two PAs each fiscal year and is open to BWH and BWFH full-time employed PAs. If you're interested in learning more or downloading an application, please click here.  We look forward to reading your applications!