UNCC300 Assessment: Partners in Health and Global Justice

This project examines Partners in Health (PIH), a non-profit healthcare organization founded in 1987. The assignment provides an overview of PIH, detailing its mission to provide modern medical care and offer hope to those in need, with operations spanning multiple countries. It outlines PIH's projects, including building hospitals, training medical staff, and removing barriers to good health, highlighting its contribution to the common good through healthcare services, advocacy, and community development. The student's professional contribution, leveraging sociology skills, is also discussed, detailing how they can contribute to the organization through direct assistance, counseling, financial support, advocacy, and staff training. The assignment concludes with references to relevant publications and an introduction summarizing the project's objectives, including the analysis of PIH's role in fostering a more just global community.

PIH Org.: Creation of a More Just Global
Community
PUT YOUR NAME HERE (24-28 Font)
Overview of Organisation
 PIH is a private, nonprofit, secular, Boston based
healthcare organization.
 Founded in 1987 by Thomas J. White, Paul Farmer,
Todd McCormack, Ophelia Dahl and Jim Yong Kim
 Operate in Boston, Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Mexico,
Russia, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia
 The mission is to provide modern medical healthcare
to those who need it and offer hope to those in
despair
 Projects include
a. Building hospitals
b. Train medical staff
c. Remove barriers to good health
d. Providing health services to local areas
Contribution to the Common Good
 Provides healthcare services against diseases and
illnesses to the poor
 treatment and consultation about cancer
 Builds hospitals and health facilities in local areas
increasing accessibility
 Trains and hires local medical staff to serve the
poor
 Remove dirty water in environments to avoid
spread of diseases
 Provide food to poor people
 Advocates for rights of poor people and
disadvantaged
 Offer hope to those in despair
My Professional Contribution
 I have sociology professional skills that can
help harmonize the communities served by the
organization
 I can offer physical help in terms of treating,
building, distributing food and medicine
 I can guide and counsel those in despair for the
organization
 I can offer financial help through personal
contribution and collect aids from well wishers
 I can advocate for the poor people to get the
affordable healthcare services from the firm
 I can train and help the staff in their medical
services and efforts
References
• McIntyre, T., Hughes, C.D., Pauyo, T., Sullivan,
S.R., Rogers, S.O., Raymonville, M. and Meara,
J.G., 2011. Emergency surgical care delivery in
post-earthquake Haiti: Partners in Health and
Zanmi Lasante experience. World journal of
surgery, 35(4), pp.745-750.
• Medium.com, 2016. Partners In Health 2016
Annual Report. Official website
https://medium.com/partnersinhealth/2016annualr
eport-ec30bf1a337d
• Thara, R. and Patel, V., 2010. Role of non-
governmental organizations in mental health in
India. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 52(Suppl1),
p.S389.
Introduction
 The name of the organization is ‘Partners in
Health’ or PIH.
 Writer expects to read about:
 Overview of partners in health organization
 How the organization contributes to global
common good
 My professional contribution to global
common good
 An image of the organization