Dialogue on the Impact of Compassion in Global Health

On September 16-17, 2010, ten leaders in global health met at the Carter Center in Atlanta to consider the importance and impact of compassion in global health. They shared personal stories about the role of compassion in their own work and considered how compassion tends to be overlooked in the increasingly complex and rapidly changing field of global health.

Reflections on a Review of the Compassion & Global Health Literature, 2010

Annotated Bibliography of the Compassion & Global Health Literature, 2010

List of Global Health Leader Participants

  • David Addiss, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA
  • George Alleyne, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon.), D.Sc. (Hon.), Director Emeritus, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC
  • Abhay Bang, M.D., Director, Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), Gadchiroli, Maharashtra State, India
  • Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
  • Jeannine Coreil, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  • Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director, Partners In Health and Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
  • John B. Hardman, M.D., President and CEO, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA
  • Howard Hiatt, M.D., Associate Chief and Co-Founder of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Adetokunbo Lucas, M.D., Former Professor of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, currently in Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Christina Puchalski, M.D., M.S., Executive Director, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, Washington, DC, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
  • Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P., President and CEO, Task Force for Global Health in Decatur, GA.
  • Bernhard Schwartländer, M.D., Ph.D., Director for Evidence, Strategy and Results, UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

Conference Coordinators: Heidi Ihrig and Lisa Hayes