Other names Dokte Paul Role Anthropologist Nationality American Spouse Didi Bertrand (m. 1996) | Name Paul Farmer Siblings Jeff Farmer | |
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Fields Internal MedicineInfectious DiseaseMedical Anthropology Children Sebastian Farmer, Catherine Farmer, Elizabeth Farmer Books Haiti After the Earthquake, Pathologies of Power, AIDS and Accusation, Infections and Inequalities, The Uses Of Haiti Similar People | ||
How a college class can change your life paul farmer
Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti. Co-founder of an international social justice and health organization, Partners In Health (PIH), he is known as "the man who would cure the world", as described in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.
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- How a college class can change your life paul farmer
- Paul farmer on leadership in public health for the poor voices in leadership at hsph
- Personal life and education
- International work
- Awards
- Publications
- References
Farmer is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
In May 2009, he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, succeeding Jim Yong Kim, his longtime friend and collaborator. Kim was appointed as of 2012 President of the World Bank. On December 17, 2010, Harvard University's President, Drew Gilpin Faust, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, named Farmer as a University Professor, the highest honor that the University can bestow on one of its faculty members.
Farmer resides in Kigali, Rwanda as of 2008. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. He is editor-in-chief of Health and Human Rights Journal. In May 2009, Farmer was nominated to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, but the nomination was withdrawn. In August 2009, Farmer was named United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti (serving under former US President Bill Clinton, in his capacity as Special Envoy), to assist in improving the economic and social conditions of the Caribbean nation.
Paul farmer on leadership in public health for the poor voices in leadership at hsph
Personal life and education
Farmer was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Weeki Wachee, Florida. His brother is former professional wrestler Jeff Farmer. He is a graduate of Hernando High School in Brooksville, Florida, where he was elected president of his senior class. He attended Duke University as a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in medical anthropology. He attended Harvard University, earning an MD and a PhD in medical anthropology.
He and his wife Didi have two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth, and one son, Sebastian.
On June 11, 2014, Farmer endorsed fellow physician Don Berwick for Governor of Massachusetts.
International work
In 1987, Farmer, along with Ophelia Dahl, Jim Yong Kim, Thomas J. White and Todd McCormack, co-founded Partners In Health. PIH began in Cange in the Central Plateau of Haiti. It has developed into a worldwide health organization with a model for providing health care. The PIH hospital in Haiti provides free treatment to patients. PIH helps patients living in poverty to obtain effective drugs to treat tuberculosis and AIDS.
In addition to his hospital in Haiti, Farmer oversees projects in Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, and Peru. His approach has its basis in ethnographic analysis and real world practicality.
Author Tracy Kidder wrote Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, which describes Farmer's work in Haiti, Peru, and Russia. It also covers his efforts to balance clinical and academic responsibilities with having a family. The book explores the interactions and conflicts that Farmer faced in continuing to work to secure healthcare for the poor in Haiti. The book won several awards. The story of Partners in Health is also told in the 2017 documentary, Bending the Arc.
Farmer is on the board of the Aristide Foundation for democracy; he is a co-founder and Board Member of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. He is on the Board of PIVOT, a recently formed healthcare and research organization operating in Madagascar ([3]). He is a member of the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO focused on developing the Health Impact Fund. He also serves on the Global Advisory Council of GlobeMed, a student-driven global health organization that works through a partnership model. Farmer also serves on the Advisory Board of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an international student-driven advocacy organization that works on issues of medicine development and affordability.
He was appointed as United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser for Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti on December 28, 2012.
In October 2009, Farmer gave a lecture titled "Development: Creating Sustainable Justice" at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture Series.
Farmer is a board member of Kageno Worldwide, Inc., a community development agency that has worked in Kenya and Rwanda.
Awards
Farmer has won honors including: