This excerpt was taken from an article published by the Harvard Medical School.
The story begins with a group of young idealists who set out 30 years ago to save as many lives as they could in a tiny health clinic in impoverished Haiti.
That single struggling clinic grew into a global movement, and the young idealists became leaders in global health and development.
The action unfolds in “Bending the Arc,” a documentary about the history of Partners In Health, an organization devoted to providing medical care for the world’s poorest people.
At a special preview screening of the film at Harvard Medical School on Sept. 19, two of PIH’s founders, HMS alumni Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, and Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard and head of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, joined George Q. Daley, dean of HMS, for a discussion of the film and of their life’s work.