Coral Gables Congregational Church. May 5, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice will be in conversation with an equally passionate voice in world literature. Together, they discuss some of the greatest challenges of our times, including:
How to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rights;
Overturning common assumptions about health disparities around the globe by considering the large-scale social forces that determine who gets sick and who has access to health care
Discussing how hope, solidarity, faith, and hardbitten analysis have animated Farmer’s service to the poor in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Russia, and elsewhere;
The call to the next generation to make the world a safer and more humane place through creativity, passion, teamwork and determination.
About the Author
Paul Farmer is co-founder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent book is Haiti After the Earthquake. Other titles include Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights; The New War on the Poor; Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, all by UC Press.
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters.
FREE tickets are required for this event. Available, while supplies last, limit 2 per person, at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Miami Beach or Bal Harbour Shops.
Coral Gables Congregational Church
3010 De Soto Boulevard
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305.448.7421
www.mycgcc.org
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