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Year of Birth and Age and Where He was Born
October 26, 1959, 58 Years Old North Adams, MA -
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Family Part 1
The second of six children. When he was seven years old, his father, a salesman and high school math teacher, moved the family to Birmingham, Alabama, and five years later, to Brooksville, Florida, a small town north of Tampa, inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Here, the elder Farmer found jobs teaching, and working with developmentally disabled adults. -
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Family Part 2
He described his father as “a free spirit.” When they moved to Florida, he housed his family in an old school bus he had converted into a mobile home, replacing the seats with bunk beds. He wired the bus with electricity, but it lacked running water. -
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Family Part 3
In the bus, the family of eight migrated from one trailer park to another. When the father decided to try his hand at commercial fishing, he moved his family to a houseboat in the Gulf. Tiring of fishing, the elder Farmer moored the boat in an undeveloped bayou called Jenkins Creek. The family bathed in the creek, and brought their drinking water back from Brooksville in jugs. -
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Education
Hernando High School, Duke University, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, -
What he does
He is 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. -
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The impact of the events/work he does
His work impacts the lives of the people in Haiti and around the world. He provides basic heath care to those living in poverty. -
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Wife and Kids
Paul married his wife, Didi in 1996 and they have 3 beautiful children, 2 girls Catherine and Elizabeth, and one son, Sebastian. -
Haiti
Paul Farmer examines AIDS patient Thelemaque Innocent at the Partners In Health hospital in Cange, Haiti. -
Paul Farmer
Dr. Farmer holds an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he is the Kolokotrones University Professor and the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Additionally, Dr. Farmer serves as the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. Dr. Farmer was honored with the School’s Public Health Hero Award in 2009. -
Video Of his successfulness
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His Book
In Paul Farmer’s 2013 book To Repair The World, he discusses the challenges of global poverty and human rights. -
His accomplishments
Dr. Farmer and his colleagues in the United States and abroad have pioneered novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. -
What Paul dedicated his life to
Dr. Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people -
Paul Farmer Works to Heal Haiti in ‘Bending the Arc’
Global health care
