{"id":334991,"date":"2010-02-18T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=37652"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:00:31","slug":"farmer%e2%80%99s-tiyatien-health-wins-mental-health-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334991","title":{"rendered":"Farmer\u2019s Tiyatien Health wins mental health competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiyatienhealth.org\/\">Tiyatien Health,<\/a> a social justice organization co-founded by <a href=\"http:\/\/ghsm.hms.harvard.edu\/people\/faculty\/farmer\/\">Paul Farmer<\/a>, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health at <a href=\"http:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/hms\/\">Harvard Medical School<\/a>, was named the grand prize winner in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashoka.org\/\">Ashoka Foundation<\/a>\u2019s \u201cRethinking Mental Health:\u00a0Improving Community Wellbeing\u201d competition, which seeks \u201cthe best solutions to improve mental health in communities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Ashoka Foundation and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/\">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a>, the competition, drew over 340 submissions from 42 countries from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Tiyatien Health, which includes a number of Harvard-affiliated physicians, residents, and students, works with communities in rural Liberia and the Liberian Government to promote equity by advancing health care services and the fundamental rights of the poor.<\/p>\n<p>The organization will receive a $5,000 prize and its work will be highlighted on the Ashoka Foundation Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changemakers.com\/\">Changemakers.com<\/a>, \u201cwhere innovators, investors, and supporters come together to help refine and scale up the impact of the newest, best ideas for social change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiyatien Health, a social justice organization co-founded by Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School, was named the grand prize winner in the Ashoka Foundation\u2019s \u201cRethinking Mental Health:\u00a0Improving Community Wellbeing\u201d competition, which seeks \u201cthe best solutions to improve mental health in communities around the world.\u201d Sponsored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}