Barron’s: How to Wisely Give Humanitarian Aid by Jonathan Katz Humanitarian aid has developed a bad reputation in recent years. When an earthquake ravaged southern Haiti in January 2010, leaving an estimated 316,000 dead, $9 billion was committed for...
“The Wounds of a Nation Still Bleed” Amy Wilentz’s ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti’ Review by Michiko Kakutani “One heroine Ms. Wilentz singles out for praise in these pages is Dr. Megan Coffee of Maplewood, N.J., who was...
The New York Review of Books Haiti: The Compromising Reality In the New York Review of Books, Mischa Berlinski writes, “Dr. Megan Coffee, a specialist in infectious diseases, has a doctorate from Oxford in epidemiology and an MD from...
A World of Its Own: Farewell Fred Voodoo reviewed by Ben Fountain “As Wilentz says of the American doctor Megan Coffee, ‘She lets Haiti teach her how to deal with Haiti.’ The Dr. Coffees of the world never stop...
The London Review of Books: What’s Next? Locusts? Review by Pooja Bhatia of The Big Truck That Went By “…Dr Coffee, a Harvard-educated specialist in infectious disease, came to Haiti just after the earthquake and set up and now runs...
Bob Braun of the NJ Star Ledger: Watching a child die in Haiti This article is dedicated to Maplewood’s Megan Coffee, a Star-Ledger Scholar-her twitter is #@doktecoffee- who, for no pay, has been operating a tuberculosis clinic in Port-au-Prince for...
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...
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....
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...
