An international nonprofit public health organization founded in 1987 by physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer together with Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White, Todd McCormack and Jim Yong Kim, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Partners In Health, often abbreviated PIH, delivers health care in some of the poorest areas of developing countries by building hospitals and other medical facilities, hiring and training local staff, and providing a broad range of care from in-home consultations to cancer treatment, on the founding premise that the world's poorest people deserve the same quality of medical care as anyone else. The organization now employs roughly 18,000 staff and operates in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the United States.
Facts
Geographic ScopeHaiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the United States 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindHealth Education Program 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
Sources
1. Partners In Health, Wikipedia
History, founding sentence
Partners In Health began in 1987, after Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl helped set up a community-based health project
Lead section, first sentence
Partners In Health (PIH) is an international nonprofit public health organization
Lead section, staff and sites sentence
Partners in Health currently has 18,000 staff members globally and has sites in Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the United States.
- Wikipedia 'Partners In Health': present-tense description of current operations; checked 2026-09-27.
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