On March 4, hundreds of mourners gathered on the Harvard Medical School Quadrangle to remember and celebrate pioneering global health physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer, who died unexpectedly in February.
Listen below to the speakers’ remarks and music performances from that evening, and read more about the vigil here.
Read a full transcript of the event [PDF].
Opening remarks by George Q. Daley, Dean of HMS
Lisa Wong, associate co-director of the HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative and assistant professor of medicine, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital, and members of the Longwood Symphony and HMS Chamber Music Society perform "Air" by J.S. Bach
Remarks by Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Remarks by Louise Ivers, HMS professor of global health and social medicine and professor of medicine at Mass General
Remarks by Josh Ellis, HMS medical student and student in the HMS master’s program in global health delivery
Christina Lively, senior education coordinator for the master of medical sciences in global health delivery program, delivers remarks and performs "Mountains Beyond Mountains"
Remarks by Remy Pacifique, pharmacy lead for Partners In Health in Liberia and a student in the HMS master’s program in global health delivery
Remarks by Wilfredo Matias, former resident in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity
Candle lighting; Joia Mukherjee, associate professor of global health and social medicine at HMS and chief medical officer of PIH, and Lively perform "Amazing Grace"; Martha Vedrine, admissions and recruitment coordinator at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, performs "Chè Ségnè, Kinbin Min-m"
Remarks by Cliff Tabin, the HMS George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor of Genetics and head of the HMS Department of Genetics
Remarks by Joe Rhatigan, associate professor of global health and social medicine at HMS and associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s
Third-year medical student Adetomiwa Owoseni and chorus perform “Soon and Very Soon”
Closing remarks by Mukherjee
Mukherjee performs "Give Light"; Owoseni and chorus perform “This Little Light of Mine”
Lisa Wong, associate co-director of the HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative and assistant professor of medicine, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital, and members of the Longwood Symphony and HMS Chamber Music Society perform "Air" by J.S. Bach
Remarks by Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Remarks by Louise Ivers, HMS professor of global health and social medicine and professor of medicine at Mass General
Remarks by Josh Ellis, HMS medical student and student in the HMS master’s program in global health delivery
Christina Lively, senior education coordinator for the master of medical sciences in global health delivery program, delivers remarks and performs "Mountains Beyond Mountains"
Remarks by Remy Pacifique, pharmacy lead for Partners In Health in Liberia and a student in the HMS master’s program in global health delivery
Remarks by Wilfredo Matias, former resident in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity
Candle lighting; Joia Mukherjee, associate professor of global health and social medicine at HMS and chief medical officer of PIH, and Lively perform "Amazing Grace"; Martha Vedrine, admissions and recruitment coordinator at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, performs "Chè Ségnè, Kinbin Min-m"
Remarks by Cliff Tabin, the HMS George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor of Genetics and head of the HMS Department of Genetics
Remarks by Joe Rhatigan, associate professor of global health and social medicine at HMS and associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s
Third-year medical student Adetomiwa Owoseni and chorus perform “Soon and Very Soon”
Closing remarks by Mukherjee
Mukherjee performs "Give Light"; Owoseni and chorus perform “This Little Light of Mine”
