Accompaniment

  • Accompaniment is an expansive idea, encompassing both the moral center of social medicine and a pragmatic tool for global health delivery. In honor of our friend, colleague, and accompagnateur Paul Farmer, a proseminar from partners at Harvard Medical School, Partners in Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital about the meaning and practice of accompaniment.

  • Anthony Fauci, Joel Mubiligi, Elizabeth Bruenig, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Joia Mukherjee, Jason Silverstein, Eddy Eustache, Daniel Palazuelos, Maxo Luma.

  • Fall 2026

To accompany someone is to go somewhere with him or her, to be present on a journey with a beginning and an end: ‘I’ll share your fate for awhile — and by awhile I don’t mean a little while.’

— Paul Farmer

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