I’m delighted to share my interview with Daniel Palazuelos. Dan’s method to drugs and public well being is deeply knowledgeable by his meditation follow and his ardour for zen and poetry.
Collectively, these influences have helped Dan nurture a perspective and method to his work (and life) that’s based on compassion.
On this interview, we discover zen, the beat poets, literature, catholicism and the way these early influences formed his perspective.
Daniel Palazuelos Bio:
Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH, is an Affiliate Doctor within the Division of Drugs, Assistant Director of the Hiatt World Well being Fairness Residency within the Division of World Well being Fairness, and a Clinician-Educator Hospitalist at Brigham and Girls’s Hospital. Dr. Palazuelos additionally serves because the Cannon Society World Well being Instructing Fellow at Harvard Medical Faculty, because the Senior Well being and Coverage Advisor for Group Well being Methods at Companions In Well being, and because the Co-founder/Chief Strategist of Compañeros En Salud – México (PIH-Mexico).
Early in his profession, Dr. Palazuelos targeted on grassroots neighborhood well being efforts within the Sierra Madre Mountains of Chiapas, México. The teachings realized throughout this time helped Dr. Palazuelos and his crew co-found Compañeros En Salud, the Companions In Well being sister-project in Mexico, a healthcare system strengthening group that works with the Mexican authorities to ship high-quality medical care to the agricultural poor and prepare the subsequent era of “change brokers.”
Dr. Palazuelos has additionally collaborated with the UN Particular Envoy Workplace for Well being Financing to put in writing a report outlining the case for funding in neighborhood well being employees. This led to the institution of the Financing Alliance for Well being, a world group that companions with Ministries of Well being in impoverished international locations to construct, discover funding for, and maintain bold nationwide neighborhood well being packages.
Along with this implementation work, he has held varied roles in international well being training, together with: coaching and mentoring Mexican clinicians throughout their social service yr working with PIH-Mexico; serving as the worldwide well being educating fellow for the Cannon Society at Harvard Medical Faculty; and serving because the Assistant Director for the Hiatt World Well being Fairness Residency the place he helps to coach resident-physicians trying to launch a profession in international well being. Dr. Palazuelos goals to coach international well being clinicians to grasp the views of these they serve, and to design exemplary well being methods which might be aligned with the actual wants of individuals dwelling within the poorest and most troublesome circumstances.
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Daniel’s Contact Data
Daniel at Brigham and Girls’s Hospital
Daniel at Harvard Medical Faculty
Daniel at Companions In Well being
First Church Boston, Unitarian Universalists
BOOKS and AUDIOS:
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Grasp Seung Sahn by Zen Grasp Seung Sahn (Writer), Stephen Mitchell (Compiler)
What Makes You Not A Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
On the Highway by Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
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