Partners In Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada We are a social justice and global health organization striving to make health care a human right. We refuse to accept that any life is worth less than another.

Partners In Health (PIH) was founded in 1987 to support a one-room health clinic serving a destitute squatter settlement in rural Haiti. PIH’s founders believed the conditions in the settlement — the crushing poverty, absence of modern health care and pervasive poor health — were not inevitable. These were social conditions subject to human intervention and so could be changed — in Haiti or anywhere in the world. PIH Canada opened our offices in 2011 to strengthen the work and add our voice to the Canadian movement for health as a human right. We bring the benefits of modern medicine to those who have suffered from the overt and subtle injustices of the world, in the past and in the present.

It’s International Development Week 🇨🇦So… what is that, and why does it matter?International Development Week is a Canad...
02/02/2026

It’s International Development Week 🇨🇦
So… what is that, and why does it matter?

International Development Week is a Canadian initiative that began as a way to recognize the role people, organizations, and communities play in global cooperation beyond our borders.

At its core, IDW is about learning, questioning, and re-imagining development as something built in partnership, not imposed.

As Paul Farmer reminded us: doing things in partnership.

👀 Stay tuned this week for content and events exploring what that looks like in practice.

Cuts to global health funding put human lives at risk. Recent research suggests that large-scale foreign aid reductions ...
01/29/2026

Cuts to global health funding put human lives at risk.

Recent research suggests that large-scale foreign aid reductions could result in millions of additional deaths globally by 2030, many of them children under five.

These are not abstract figures. They represent families and communities whose survival depends on access to basic care.

At a time of global uncertainty, our message is clear: Canada’s steadfastness to its 10-Year Commitment to Global Health and Rights is critical.

Delivering on our promises delivers for humanity.

01/18/2026

Tell me you don’t know about colonial extractive history and its long term impact on a country without telling me…

It’s easy to jump on the blame-the-poor-for-their-circumstances train, harder to stop and investigate the pattern of why some countries still struggle today, and why other countries are doing so well. To quote buzzfeed, the answer may surprise you.

And to think charity or the international development sector can undo centuries of extraction and inequality overnight is, at best, misguided optimism.

If you’ve never been on Yzma’s blame-the-poor train, or have been, but want to get off of it, drop us a follow. We cover this stuff quite a bit here.

What does innovation mean when resources are limited and the stakes are high?Join PIH Canada and for a TB Panel for a g...
01/16/2026

What does innovation mean when resources are limited and the stakes are high?

Join PIH Canada and for a TB Panel for a grounded conversation on tuberculosis care — focused on practical, ethical approaches shaped by real-world constraints.

🗓 Jan 30 | 🕛 12 PM EST | 📍 Zoom
🔗 Register via link in bio

01/16/2026

Care that lasts is built together.
Show up every month with us.

Become a monthly donor through the link in our bio 🧡

01/14/2026

✨ This is your sign to join a case competition ✨

📍 McMaster University
🗓 Feb 06, 2026
💡 Tackle a real global health challenge
🏆 Cash prizes

Bring your ideas. Bring your team (or not). Let’s go.
Link in bio.

miss us?we’ve been working behind the scenes. building care that doesn’t disappear when the moment passes.this is what l...
01/08/2026

miss us?
we’ve been working behind the scenes.
building care that doesn’t disappear when the moment passes.
this is what long-term partnership looks like.
join us! become a monthly donor through the link in our comments 🧡

01/02/2026

POV: you think foreign aid should be cancelled

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