Join us for Sargent College's 2025 Meredith E. Drench Lecture presented by Tracy Kidder!

Tracy Kidder is an American nonfiction writer and Pulitzer Prize winning author. His enormously influential book Mountains Beyond Mountains captures two global health crises through the eyes of Dr. Paul Farmer, a single-minded physician bent on improving the health of some of the poorest people on the planet.  Much as he did with Paul Farmer in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder’s latest New York Times bestseller Rough Sleepers is the powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference. Rough Sleepers introduces readers to Dr. Jim O’Connell, who helped create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community. Join us as Tracy Kidder discusses his experiences writing about two of the most influential physicians of our time.

Admission is free. The public is welcome

The 2025 Meredith E. Drench Lecture is co-hosted with generous support from Boston University partners:

School of Public Health

School of Social Work

Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

Center on Forced Displacement