Courtesy Jeremy D. Kark, M.D., Ph.D.
COMMUNITY HEALTH IN SOUTH AFRICA
Sidney and Emily Kark founded a health center in Pholela, an impoverished Zulu tribal reserve in the eastern province of Natal, South Africa. Their innovative approach inspired other projects around the world and helped shape the first community health centers in the United States.
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Dr. Jeremy Kark is the son of Sidney and Emily Kark, pioneering physicians who developed a model approach to community health in South Africa in the 1940s. He has answered these questions on their behalf.
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