Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was the Kolokotrones University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Farmer served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he received an MD and a Ph.D. He was also chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Farmer is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.
Paul Farmer Cause of Death
Paul Farmer died in his sleep while in Rwanda, according to Partners in Health, the global health nonprofit that he co-founded in 1987.
Who Was Paul Farmer?
Rancher helped to establish Partners in Health, which gives care and fabricates a general wellbeing framework in unfortunate nations.
He won over 20 awards, including the Bronislaw Malinowski Award and the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology, a John D. what’s more Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Outstanding International Physician Award from the American Medical Association, the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which he got with his PIH prime supporters.
