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...
Her home clings to the mountain side. She can’t walk outside it without being winded. The steep path that runs along her home leads to a world she used to know. She had been a nursing student until she...
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...
TB as only animation can explain. A video in Haitian Kreyol explaining why taking TB medications every day is so important.
“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...
Bob Braun, Newark Star-Ledger Columnist Reflects, as he retires with his final column… After 50 years of adventure, a Ledger columnist puts down the pen “…But the best was meeting, even befriending, the ordinary people whose stories were extraordinary....
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...
Those who know TB best are those who've been there. Those who've had the disease or cared for those who did know what it's like. They know how hard it is to get better.
Oxygen saves lives. It doesn't just come out of the wall like in hospitals elsewhere. Providing continuous oxygen when the power goes out, when the roads are blocked is part of our work every day. Building systems is what...
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...
WNET – Tavis Smiley Interview with Amy Wilentz: Tavis Smiley Interview video From the transcript: “Well, I have a doctor in here and she’s wonderful, but she’s very small-scale. So she came down to Haiti after the earthquake. She...
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....
