berkeleyquestions

Hey Dr. Farmer! I’m a student at UC Berkeley and a member of Partners In Health Engage at Berkeley and I had the amazing privilege of meeting you last semester when you came and gave a talk at UCSF during their global health bootcamp. I have a couple questions if you don’t mind!

• Do you think there are too many NGOs in Haiti and throughout the world, and if so, do you think oversight is necessary to prevent parallel programs?

• Is it necessary to get an M.D. to work in global health, or does an M.P.H. make more sense?

• I heard that you were coming to Berkeley for the Clinton Global Initiative University event in April! Would you have time to swing by to say hi to your PIH Engage admirers at Berkeley?

Also I was told that your book on the Ebola crisis was going to come out this Spring. Do you know when that will be?

Thank you so much for doing this! You continue to be an inspiration.

I'm fairly certain the opening plenary session is only open to participants and UCB students, and even then there's a pretty long waitlist for those students who weren't actually accepted into the thing. I don't know if there's a ticket option, but I couldn't find one. I wish it was open to the public!