I am devastated by the loss of Paul Farmer—a friend, mentor, and unparalleled visionary for global public health. Countless people are alive because of his investment in public health infrastructure, in direct care delivery, and in selflessly training others to do the same.
— Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) February 21, 2022
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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 the Kolokotrones 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 is documented in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, the British Medical Journal, and Social Science and Medicine.
Farmer wrote extensively on health and human rights, the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases, and global health.
He was known as "the man who would cure the world", as described in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Paul Farmer & Partners in Health received the Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award in 2007 for saving lives by providing free health care to people in the world’s poorest communities and working to improve health care systems globally. The story of Partners In Health is also told in the 2017 documentary Bending the Arc. He was a proponent of liberation theology.[1][2]
On April 24, 2021, Dr. Farmer was named Aurora Humanitarian, in recognition of his work with PIH.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a Boston-based nonprofit health care organization founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White,[1] Todd McCormack, and Jim Yong Kim.[2][3]
The organization's stated goals are "to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair."[4] It provides healthcare in the poorest areas of developing countries.[5] It builds hospitals[6] and other medical facilities, hires and trains local staff, and delivers a range of healthcare, from in-home consultations to cancer treatments.[7] It also removes barriers to maintaining good health, such as dirty water or a lack of food, and strengthens the rights of the poor.[8] The approach trades charity for "accompaniment," which is described as a "dogged commitment to doing whatever it takes to give the poor a fair shake."[9] While many of its principles are rooted in liberation theology, the organization is secular.[10] It forms long-term partnerships with, and works on behalf of, local ministries of health.[11] PIH currently holds a 4 out of 4 stars rating from Charity Navigator, a nonprofit evaluator.[12]
Partners In Health began in 1987, after Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl helped set up a community-based health project called Zanmi Lasante ("Partners in Health" in Haitian Creole) in Cange, Haiti.[13] The organization initially focused on treating people with HIV/AIDS in rural Haiti. PIH now embraces a holistic approach to tackling disease, poverty, and human rights[14] in a variety of countries.[15]
In 1993, Farmer used the proceeds from his John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award to create a new arm of Partners In Health, the Institute for Health and Social Justice. Its mission is to analyze the impact of poverty and inequality on health, and to use findings to educate academics, donors, policy makers, and the general public. PIH's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joia Mukherjee,[16] directs the Institute.
FACE AIDS was a student-led non-profit created in 2005 that mobilized students in the fight to end AIDS. FACE AIDS staff supported high school and college campuses across the country with personalized training as they raised funds to support the life-saving work of Partners In Health in HIV-affected communities in Rwanda. FACE AIDS chapters ensured that conversations about HIV/AIDS stayed active among their peers, and mobilized the next generation of leaders in social impact.
In 2014, FACE AIDS was invited to become a part of Partners In Health (PIH) as the new student branch of their community organizing program, PIH | Engage. In August 2014, FACE AIDS fully integrated their programs with PIH and closed operations.[1]
Jim Yong Kim (Korean: 짐용김; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (김용/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. On January 7, 2019, he announced that he would step down effective February 1, 2019.[1]
A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution.[2][3]
Kim was named the world's 50th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013.[4]
World Health Organization (2003–2006)
Kim left PIH in 2003 to join the World Health Organization (WHO) as an adviser to the director-general. In March 2004, he was appointed as director of WHO's HIV/AIDS department, after having success creating programs to fight the disease at PIH. Kim oversaw all of WHO's work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to help developing countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs. This included an ambitious "3x5 initiative" designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005. The goal was not met until 2007, but according to the WHO, served to push the treatment strategy for AIDS in Africa further and faster than could have otherwise been hoped.[12][13] As of 2012, the program has treated more than 7 million Africans with HIV.[14][15]
Harvard University (1993–2009)
Beginning in 1993, Kim served as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, eventually holding professorships in medicine, social medicine and human rights. At the time of his departure in 2009, Kim was chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health,[12][13][16] known internally as "The Four Pillars"[citation needed],[17] a term and concept taken from his earlier WHO work with HIV/AIDS (the 3x5 program).[18]
During his time at Harvard, Kim published numerous articles for leading academic and scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Science, and others; and contributed to several books. An expert on tuberculosis, Kim also chaired or served on a number of committees on international TB policy.[16]
Dr. Paul Farmer, Physician and Global Health Care Advocate, Dead at 62
Dr. Paul Farmer dedicated his career to advancing health care for impoverished communities
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