Who Lives, Who Dies: Reimagining Global Health

Jason Silverstein, PhD, is a lecturer and founding co-director of the Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health Program, working alongside Dr. Neal Baer. Silverstein also serves as the department's inaugural writer-in-residence, selected by Dr. Paul Farmer. Silverstein has written more than one hundred reported pieces and commentaries. His work has investigated how racial residential segregation becomes embodied as illness and disease, structural violence and the war on drugs, and the politics of health care in the United States. His work has appeared in VICE, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times, Men's Health, The Guardian, Slate, and The Nation, and his work has been featured by MSNBC, NPR, HuffPost Live, BET, and Big Think. Silverstein holds a master's and PhD in anthropology from Harvard University, where he completed an ethnography of pediatric palliative care under the direction of Dr. Arthur Kleinman and Dr. Paul Farmer. He also holds a master's in religion, ethics, and politics from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. Silverstein is an award-winning teacher who believes in teaching as a form of caregiving. He has won nine Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard College. He has supervised undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard College, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee MD, PhD, ScM, is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the field of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Global Health Delivery, and an affiliate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is also a physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Keshavjee is a leading expert in tuberculosis treatment and the anthropology of health policy. He is the author of Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health. He has worked extensively with the Boston-based nonprofit Partners In Health (PIH) on the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Over the last 25 years, Keshavjee has conducted clinical and implementation research on MDR-TB in Russia, both in the prison and civilian sectors. In addition to his work in Russia, Keshavjee was Deputy Director for the Partners In Health's health programs in Lesotho (2006-2008), launching one of the first community-based treatment programs for MDR-TB/HIV co-infection in sub-Saharan Africa. More recently, he has been working with Advance Access and Delivery, a nongovernmental organization for which he is a co-founder and clinical advisor for projects in India and South Africa. His research has resulted in a number of clinical and policy manuscripts on TB and MDR-TB, which have had significant clinical and policy impact. Keshavjee is the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Zero TB Initiative, a global coalition of implementers, policymakers, and activists working to create islands of tuberculosis elimination in a number of countries worldwide. He was the Chair of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership's Green Light Committee for MDR-TB from 2007-2010. He has been involved in a number of global guidelines for tuberculosis treatment including at the World Health Organization and the American Thoracic Society.