Haiti Three Years After the Earthquake: New Books by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan Katz Reviewed by Dr Dennis Rosen Wilentz is unsparing in her praise of Dr. Megan Coffee, the infectious disease physician who came to Port au Prince...
Boston Globe Review “Farewell, Fred Voodoo” by Karen Campbell Describing Amy Wilentz’s take on the international response after the earthquake: “She turns a cynical eye on high-profile types looking mostly for media opportunities, puzzles over Sean Penn’s ongoing generosity, and...
Sean Penn’s Efforts Shine in Haiti’s Slow Quake Recovery: Books By Jeffrey Burke The new book moves through the post-quake ruins and tent camps capturing loss, survival and frustration in shifting pictures held together by Wilentz’s unsparing voice and...
The Nation: Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti by Madison Smartt Bell From the article: Only Dr. Megan Coffee, who came to Haiti in the first wave of post-earthquake medical aid and soon created, out of toothpicks and determination,...
Haiti: Three Years Later A conversation on Haiti from the eyes of Amy Wilentz and Laurent DuBois, with mention of Ti Kay’s work.
New Jersey Star Ledger’s Bob Braun: Modest doctor makes major difference in Haiti What is most extraordinary about Megan Coffee is she does not believe she is extraordinary. The Harvard-educated physician — and Oxford-educated epidemiologist — has spent three...
NPR’s Michel Martin on Rebuilding Haiti: NPR “Rebuilding Haiti” Amy Wilentz: “Well, Megan Coffee, she’s an excellent American doctor, and she came to Port-au-Prince and she ended up in the University Hospital, which is the big hospital in Port-au-Prince....
From the Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography: “Outsiders have tried for decades in Haiti to fix and meddle with and run the show,” Amy Wilentz writes, “with, on the whole, quite poor long-term results, both because...
Jonathan Katz writes of the challenges in Haiti, as the titles says of “How the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster”. He describes how large organizations were not always able to meet the needs of those...
The Jimmy Fund: Student Council Sends Kids to School in Haiti Dr. Coffee is lauded for her work It was not until Columbia High School alumna, Dr. Megan Coffee, introduced the student body to 21-year-old Jimmy that the situation in...
Braun: In easing Haiti’s suffering, N.J. doctor finds meaning of joy Megan Coffee does not offer to explain why she does what she does, except to state the obvious: It makes her happy. It makes her happy to use...
Star Ledger: Dr Megan Coffee Volunteers in Haiti Vic Hinterlang Photojournalist Blog Richard Street: Miracle Worker
CNN Devastation in Haiti: A Month After the Earthquake VOICE OF AMERICA Online Media Tracks Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic UCSF UCSF Community Joins Together in Relief Efforts for Haiti CLARK FREIFELD Participatory Epidemiology: Harnessing The HealthMap Platform for Community Based...
Maplewood doctor volunteers at Haiti’s largest hospital after devastating earthquake by Bob Braun For weeks, Lynsa Mathieu collected a few cents from friends and relatives each time they visited her at the tuberculosis center at the University Hospital....
A look at TB in Haiti soon after the earthquake by Jeff Swicord Port-au-Prince General Hospital is the largest hospital in Haiti. Some of its buildings were damaged during the earthquake, but with the help of international medical organizations...
Haiti Hospital’s Fight Against TB Falls to One Man The article describes many of the initial difficulties in tackling TB after the earthquake, which one nurse, Mr Pierre-Louis Monfort, worked so hard to take on. For instance, from the article:...
