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Partners In Health works with groups on four continents to bring high quality health care to those most in need, from destitute rural villages in Haiti and Rwanda to the slums of Lima and the tuberculosis-ravaged prisons of Russia. The organization has developed a model of care that former President Bill Clinton has called 鈥渁 model for the world and a beacon of hope to millions.鈥�
Mukherjee has been involved in health care access and human rights issues since 1989. In Haiti, she and two colleagues established a program to treat patients with HIV infection using highly active antiretroviral therapy, one of the first efforts of its kind in a developing country. This program served as a model for the World Health Organization and other global efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Mukherjee is an executive board member of Health Action AIDS, a campaign conducted with Physicians for Human Rights to engage the U.S. health professional community in the international advocacy and education effort to stop the global AIDS pandemic.
She trained in infectious disease, internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and earned a master鈥檚 degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches courses in social medicine and infectious disease. Her scholarly work focuses on the human rights aspects of HIV treatment and on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings.
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