Paul Farmer PIH Fund Raiser

Growing Up Genius

Honors

Farmer has won multiple honors including:.

A "Genius Grant" from the Mac Arthur Foundation, 1993
Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, $1.5 million
American Medical Association's International Physician Award
2007 Austin College Leadership Award, $100,000 which he will donate to PIH

In 2004, Farmer delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at at the University of Rochester, considered by many to be the most important annual lecture series in the field of Anthropology.

Farmer received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Emory University on May 14, 2007, where he delivered the speaker at the Notre Dame forum in September 2006.

Dr. Paul Farmer was the invited keynote speaker for the 57th Annual Convention of the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) held in Washington D.C.

He was the guest speaker for the first Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Drexel University School of Public Health, held on Nov 20, 2007.

May 4, 2008, CBS's 60 Minutes did a segment on Dr. Farmer and Partners In Health.

In 2008, Dr. Farmer was named a "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Skoll Foundation (www.skollfoundation.org)

Publications

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 1993, 2006

The Uses of Haiti, Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994, 2003, 2005,

Haiti para que? Hondarribia, Spain: HIRU Argitaletxea, 1994

Sida en Hati: La Victime accusee, Paris: Editions Karthala, 1996

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Berkeley: University of California Press 1999

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor, Berkeley University of California Press

Women, Poverty & Aids: Sex, Drugs and structural Violence (series in Health and Social Justice), with coauthor Margaret Connors, Common Courage Press; Reprint edition September 1996

Farmer is the author of several books on global health inequity, most recently Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

Personal

Dr. Paul Farmer, Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and is the co-founder of Partners in Health. He is also Associate Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health in Equalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has written the book Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor and From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice.

The Farmer family Easter photo in Kigali. From Left: Elizabeth (6 mos), Catherine (10), Didi Bertrand, Baby Sebastian and Paul Farmer

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