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Full Name Ophelia Magdalena Dahl Siblings Lucy Dahl, Tessa Dahl, Theo Matthew Dahl, Olivia Twenty Dahl Grandparents William Neal, Harald Dahl, Eura Neal, Sofie Magdalene Dahl Nephews Luke Kelly, Ned Donovan, Clover Kelly Similar People | ||
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Ophelia Magdalena Dahl (born 12 May 1964) is a British social justice and health care advocate.
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As of January 2008, Dahl is the president and executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor." She first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen-year-old volunteer in Haiti, and has since dedicated her life to advocating for social justice and healthcare equity.
As a co-founder and key member of the PIH team, Dahl was featured prominently in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder's book describing the work of the organization and the life of Dr. Farmer. In December 2006, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer received the Union Medal from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dahl and the Partners in Health team is featured in the 2017 documentary film, Bending The Arc.
Dahl is the daughter of actress Patricia Neal and author Roald Dahl. Dahl contributed to the 2003 book The Roald Dahl Treasury, a collection of her father's stories, memoirs, letters and poetry, and is currently writing a memoir of her father. She is a trustee of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, a registered charity with the mission of "telling Roald Dahl’s life story, to care for his archive and to promote a love of creative writing in everyone."
Dahl graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis Scholar and delivered Wellesley's 2006 commencement address.
In 2011, she was named by the Boston Globe as one of the three Bostonians of the Year, along with her Partners in Health co-founder, Paul Farmer and a senior member of Partners in Health, Louise Ivers. This was mainly due to her and the charity's response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She has also been selected by Social Capital Inc. (SCI)as a 2011 SCI Idealist Award recipient, to be given on 30 March 2011.