His views were shaped by his own experiences as a child in the United States and as a young adult in Haiti. In 1990, he earned a PhD in anthropology alongside a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he later taught global health and social medicine.
Farmer treated patients up until his death in Rwanda, aged 62. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farmer and his colleagues denounced monopolies on vaccines that help to account for why fewer than 10% of people have been fully vaccinated in low-income countries ( P. As a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH), a non-profit organization that provides free medical care in low-income countries including Haiti, Peru and Rwanda, he used the group’s results to change global guidelines on how to treat tuberculosis and HIV. A doctor, medical anthropologist and activist, Farmer devoted his life to advocating for health equity. “What happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful,” Paul Farmer wrote in his 2005 book Pathologies of Power.
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