Whitey Ford
02-22-2022, 12:44 AM
Paul Farmer, American physician and global health care pioneer, dies at 62
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_iukzpHDA
Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his nonprofit group Partners in Health said.
The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda."
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Farmer's work on providing health care solutions to poorer countries brought him wide acclaim. A 2003 book profiling him, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," called him "the man who would cure the world."
Tributes to Farmer's legacy poured in on social media from around the world.
Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted that Farmer was "a giant" in his field.
Working in Haiti in 1987, Farmer co-founded Partners in Health to help devise and deliver better health care in poor and badly underserved countries.
A co-founder and close longtime associate was Jim Yong Kim, who went on to lead the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. In 2009, Farmer succeeded Kim as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The same year he was named a UN deputy special envoy to Haiti, working with Bill Clinton.
Farmer, a lifelong advocate for the poor Caribbean nation, co-founded the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and worked with local leaders to open a modern teaching hospital in Mirebalais, in central Haiti, in 2013.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-farmer-dies-doctor-global-health-care-pioneer-dead-age-62/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_iukzpHDA
Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his nonprofit group Partners in Health said.
The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda."
:violin :violin :violin :violin
Farmer's work on providing health care solutions to poorer countries brought him wide acclaim. A 2003 book profiling him, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," called him "the man who would cure the world."
Tributes to Farmer's legacy poured in on social media from around the world.
Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted that Farmer was "a giant" in his field.
Working in Haiti in 1987, Farmer co-founded Partners in Health to help devise and deliver better health care in poor and badly underserved countries.
A co-founder and close longtime associate was Jim Yong Kim, who went on to lead the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. In 2009, Farmer succeeded Kim as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The same year he was named a UN deputy special envoy to Haiti, working with Bill Clinton.
Farmer, a lifelong advocate for the poor Caribbean nation, co-founded the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and worked with local leaders to open a modern teaching hospital in Mirebalais, in central Haiti, in 2013.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-farmer-dies-doctor-global-health-care-pioneer-dead-age-62/