Thursday, November 15, 2007, 4:00PM
Kirsch Auditorium, bldg 32-123, Stata Center, MIT
Physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world's poorest populations, in the process helping to raise standards of care in global health. He is the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and co-founder of Partners In Health, a non-profit organization that provides free health care and undertakes advocacy activities on behalf of the destitute sick. Along with his colleagues, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis. He is the subject of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains.
photo || Mark Rosenberg, 2001 © Partners In Health. All rights reserved.