upcoming fundraisers.

Stay tuned! HJC is planning fundraisers for Summer of 2007.

HJC in the Dominican Republic.

UChicago Medical School's REMEDY is visiting Batey 1 for a community gardening project from June 18-22, 2007. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers for their time and dedication. Check our website for news about this trip soon. To learn more about UChicago's REMEDY group, see #.

Contact us to learn about how you can help HJC's programs in the DR.

past events.

HJC Co-Deputy Director, B. Ryan Phelps, presented "The Importance of Baseline Child Health Data in Low-Resource Settings: A Household Health Survey in Batey 1, Dominican Republic" at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, on May 1, 2006. For more information on this presentation, please contact us at healthjustice@thehjc.org.

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Ben Link received the first Driscoll Award for Social Responsibility from his alma mater, Beaver Country Day School in Massachusetts, and spoke there on their Social Action Day, March 10, 2006, about his work with HJC. Ben encouraged the high school students to work towards social justice. For more information, see: #.

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HJC Co-Deputy Director, Ben Link, spoke about HJC's work in the DR at the Vilna Shul "Havurah on the Hill" in Boston, MA on March 10th, 2006. For more information or for a transcript of the talk, contact Ben Link at bdlink@thehjc.org.

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HJC hosted Paul Farmer, MD, PhD presenting
Public Health & Social Justice

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Sommer Hall, 2nd Floor
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Founding director of Partners In Health (#), medical anthropologist, and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world’s poorest populations, in the process helping to raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world. Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor areas. Co-sponsored by the Center for Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (#).

For more information contact: Becky Genberg, bgenberg@thehjc.org.