Students host physician-activist for World AIDS Day
UMass Health Professionals for Human Rights welcomes Heidi Behforouz
November 30, 2012
Heidi Behforouz, pictured here at the 2011 Clinton Global Health Initiative Annual Meeting, will speak at UMass Medical School on Dec. 5 in recognition of World AIDS Day.In recognition of World AIDS Day 2012, the UMass Medical School student chapter of Health Professionals for Human Rights is hosting a lecture by HIV/AIDS physician-activist Heidi Behforouz, MD. Dr. Behforouz, medical and executive director of the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment Project (PACT), will discuss the organization’s work to improve the lives of the most vulnerable HIV/AIDS patients in Boston—individuals who suffer from mental illness, substance use, stigma and poverty, and who are dying despite readily available care and life-saving medications.
Behforouz is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in its Division of Global Health Equity. A collaboration of Partners in Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, PACT is a community-based health care initiative serving marginalized Boston communities. Since 1997, PACT’s community-based approach has been proven to improve the health of their clients at reduced costs.
Free and open to the public, the event will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in Amphitheatre I from 6 to 7:30 p.m., with dinner served at 5:40 p.m. For further information on the lecture, and to learn more about UMass Health Professionals for Human Rights, email Geoffrey Buckle, SOM ’15, at geoffrey.buckle@umassmed.edu.
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