Paul Farmer
| Paul Farmer | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
October 26, 1959 North Adams, Massachusetts |
| Other names | Doktè Paul |
| Residence |
Kigali, Rwanda United States Cange, Haiti |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Infectious Disease Medical Anthropology |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater |
Duke University (BA) Harvard University (MD, PhD) |
| Notable awards |
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize MacArthur Genius Grant |
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.
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[update]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.
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