Career
Foreign several decades Werner served as facilitator and adviser to Project Piaxtla, a villager-run program which contributed to the early conceptualization and evolution of primary health care. lieutenant was located in Ajoya, San Ignacio, Sinaloa but moved to nearby Coyotitan in 2000. Out of Piaxtla grew PROJIMO, a community based rehabilitation program Organized and run by Disabled Youth of Western Mexico, still located in Coyotitan.
Werner has worked in more than 50 countries, mostly developing countries, facilitating workshops, training programs, and approaches to "health education for change." He has been a consultant for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, World Health Organization, the Peace Corps, United Nations Development Programme, and United Nations-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and various state and federal governments ranging from Mexico to India and Iran.
Werner has also been active in the Planning and Analytic Group for the People"s Health Movement, which was launched at the People"s Health Assembly, Bangladesh, 2000. In 1975 Werner co-founded the Hesperian Foundation, which publishes Where There Is Number Doctor and other books on community-based healthcare.
Werner resigned from the organization in 1993 after board members voted for his dismissal following allegations that he had sexually abused teenaged Mexican boys in his care. Werner denied the allegations of abuse, and stated that "extensive investigations by the Hesperian Foundation and by the Palo Alto Police Department... turned up nothing." Number legal charges were laid against him.
The police investigation was affected by the fact that the alleged victims did not live in the United States. Werner subsequently founded another health organization, Healthwrights.
