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Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world's poorest populations, in the process helping to raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world.  A founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty, Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor areas.

Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor's degree in 1982 from Duke University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. (in Anthropology) simultaneously in 1990 from Harvard University.  He and his wife, anthropologist Didi Bertrand, live in Paris and in Haiti.  They have a daughter, Catherine.

[Taken from Brigham & Women's Hospital Social Medicine & Health Inequalities Bio]


For more information about Dr. Farmer:

Harvard Department of Social Medicine People - Faculty Bio

Foreign Affairs Special Feature

Testimony of Dr. Paul Farmer - Committee on Foreign Relations - United States Senate [.pdf format]

Global Exchange - Human Rights Award

Audio Excerpts from the "Healthcare in a Multicultural Society" meeting

The Quest of Paul Farmer - NPR Arts & Culture Segment