Dan Schwarz

Role(s) / Profession(s)

• Physician

Organization

• Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH
  Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 747-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery network. BWH is committed to excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every specialty of medicine and surgery. Through investigation and discovery conducted at its Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, involving more than 800 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty.
• Children's Hospital Boston
  Website: http://www.childrenshospital.org/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Children's Hospital Boston is a 397-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our Advanced Fetal Care Center can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation, and in some situations, we treat adults.)
• Harvard Medical School
  Website: http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) mission is to create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease. Students and more than 7,500 full-time faculty in 11 academic departments located on the School's Boston campus, in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 18 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, or at 30 research centers, divisions, and institutes, advance the School’s mission every day. Within HMS, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) works in close collaboration with the GHD project teams, from participating in GHDonline communities to developing the GHD academic platform.
• Harvard School of Public Health
  Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: The Harvard School of Public Health includes more than 200 faculty members working in various disciplines of public health. The overarching mission of the School - to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication - comprises four objectives: to provide the highest level of education to public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders; to foster new discoveries leading to improved health for the people of this country and all nations; to strengthen health capacities and services for communities; and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information and increase awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right.
• Nyaya Health
  Website: http://www.nyayahealth.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: Nepal About: Nyaya Health's mission is two-fold: 1. To develop healthcare capacity and the provision of free community-based healthcare in rural Nepal; and 2. To establish and disseminate a scaleable model of healthcare delivery in regions affected by poverty, isolation, war, and neglect. Nyaya’s health care development activities are based in the district of Achham, Nepal, and are centered at the Bayalpata Hospital. * Nyaya Health Website: http://www.nyayahealth.org for more information about our organization * Nyaya Health Wiki: http://wiki.nyayahealth.org with details about our clinical protocols, operations, management and financing activities * Nyaya Health Blog: http://blog.nyayahealth.org where staff and volunteers post personal accounts of Nyaya’s work.
• Partners In Health - PIH
  Website: http://www.pih.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.

Work Location(s)

• United States

Language(s)

• English

Dan's Communities

• [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention
• Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases
• Global Health Nursing & Midwifery
• Global Surgery & Anesthesia
• Health IT
• HIV Treatment & Prevention
• Integrating M&E for Health Systems Strengthening - April 2-6 2012
• Malaria Treatment & Prevention
• MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
• Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of NGOs - November 7-11 2011
• TB Infection Control
• Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network