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About Paul Zintl
Paul Zintl is Chief Operating Officer for Partners In Health (PIH) and Senior Advisor for Planning and Finance for the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change (PIDSC) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He joined PIH and HMS in January, 2002. He is also currently serving as the chair of the Drug Management Sub-Committee within the Stop TB Partnership.

Prior to joining PIH/HMS, Mr. Zintl was a managing director of J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York, where he worked for 18 years, until 1995. In this capacity, his responsibilities included management, control, analysis, and evaluation of the firm’s trading businesses. After leaving J.P. Morgan, he studied state criminal justice systems and worked as a private consultant for two years. In 1998 he received a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Administrator (CEO, COO, President, Executive)

Organization

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stop TB Partnership
    Website: http://www.stoptb.org/ Type: International Organization/Agency Country: Switzerland About: The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to realize the goal of eliminating TB as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB. It comprises a network of international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals that have expressed an interest in working together to achieve this goal. WHO has a dual role in the Stop TB Partnership. As a leading agency in the partnership, WHO provides guidance on global policy and has permanent representation in the Stop TB Coordinating Board. WHO is also the housing institution of the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat, which benefits from the mechanisms of WHO. The secretariat follows the rules and regulations of WHO for its administrative, financial and human resources management, subject, if necessary, to the adaptations which might be required in order to meet the particular needs of the Stop TB Partnership.

Work Location(s)

  • United States

Paul's Communities

Language(s)

  • English

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    Paul Zintl started a discussion "National Public Radio Report re XDR-TB" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    here is a 3-minute radio segment reporting on the XDR-TB findings: NPR's "All Things Considered" on Wednesday reported on the study. The segment includes comments from Mitnick; Raviglione; and Jennifer Furin, Partners in Health country director in Lesotho (Knox, "All Things Considered," NPR, 8/6). Audio of the segment is available online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93355488

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    Paul Zintl started a discussion "James Nachtwey XDR TB photography" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    This new website provides haunting images to raise awareness of the threat of XDR/MDR-TB The issue and the photos| www.XDRTB.org <http://www.xdrtb.org/>

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    Paul Zintl started a discussion "Effective TB and HIV Program Integration?" in the Adherence & Retention community.

    In a revised Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings, Partners In Health provides an extensive discussion of how to manage TB and HIV co-infection, detailing the prevention and diagnosis of TB in HIV-positive patients, TB therapy for patients needing ART, the choice of regimen, and the monitoring and coordination of services for co-infected patients (see Chapter 2: Initiating a Comprehensive HIV Prevention and Treatment Program: The PIH Model). This Guide can ...

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    Paul Zintl started a discussion "How research can help control tuberculosis" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    How research can help control tuberculosis by R. E. Chaisson, M. Harrington, The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, May 2009 Full text access available at this link: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtld/2009/00000013/00000005/art00007?token=004e1a822b4b5ed5957b76504c48763f255c235646247a42427c6a332b25757d5c4f6d4e227a97 Tuberculosis (TB) has played a central role in the history of biomedical science from Koch onwards. Research in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries yielded extremely valuable diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive tools for the control of TB. Following the development of shortcourse chemotherapy in the 1970s ...

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    Paul Zintl replied to "DR-TB in Mumbai, India" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.

    Here is a link to another short video documenting Indus Hospital's community-based treatment for MDR-TB patients in Karachi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-EQ6BdijFM

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