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Paul Farmer, M.D.
Was it on your first trip to Haiti that you learned what the building of the Péligre Dam had done to the people of Cange and the Central Plateau?
Paul Farmer: Yeah. Even now, it’s still an evolving kind of understanding. I’ll tell you what I mean. When I was 23, I went to the squatter settlement that was formed when the valley was flooded by a hydroelectric dam. So that’s one way of experiencing an infrastructure project. I was reading about the Tennessee Valley Authority, actually, of all places. Here in Cape Town, yesterday, I’m reading a book about FDR.
I studied a little bit about the TVA, as it’s called, when I was writing my first book about that part of Haiti. But the purpose of that infrastructure project in the Tennessee Valley was a poverty alleviation project, and to generate cheaper power in Alabama, Tennessee and the American Southeast. And that was the stated purpose of that dam, the Péligre Dam. It was to control the flood waters down river, and later to generate electrical power. Now remember what happened in Hai
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In Memoriam: Paul Farmer
Paul Edward Farmer, a pioneering Harvard Medical School global health physician and medical anthropologist who dedicated his life to improving and providing health care in some of the world’s most underserved countries and communities, died in his sleep from an acute cardiac event in Rwanda on Feb. 21. He was 62.
Farmer was the Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was also chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, a model academic institution recently praised in the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring report.
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“Paul dedicated his life to improving human health and advocating for health equity and social justice on a global scale,” said HMS Dean George Q. Daley in a letter to the HMS community. “I am particularly shaken by his passing because he was not only a consummate colleague and a beloved mentor, but a close frie
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Paul Farmer
American medical anthropologist and physician (1959–2022)
This article is about the physician. For the former British educationalist and local councillor, see Paul S. Farmer.
Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. He was professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad pioneered novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings in the U.S. and abroad. Their work
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