The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) hosts a screening of the documentary “Bending the Arc” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22.
There's simultaneous screenings in both Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay. The Greater Sudbury screening takes place in room 107 of the Medical School Building on the Laurentian University campus.
“Bending the Arc” tells the story of doctors and activists Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl, who founded Partners in Health and started a movement that changed global health forever.
While working in a squatter settlement in Haiti in the 1980s, Drs. Farmer, Kim, and Dahl developed a remarkable model of how to deliver care in the most unlikely places: they trained their friends and neighbours — all ordinary Haitian villagers — as health-care workers.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Mark Brender, National Director of Partners in Health Canada; Sol Mamakwa, Health Advisor for Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN); and a panel of physicians and medical students experienced in global health, including: Dr. Jack Haggarty, Psychiatrist and NOSM Professor; Dr. Alex Anawati, Emergency Physician, NOSM Assistant Professor, and NOSM Board Member; and, Natalie Taylor, NOSM medical student.
The event is free with a donation to the food bank.
