![]() and procuring low-cost, cutting-edge drugs to fight HIV. Farmer received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1993 for his work with P.I.H. In 1987, he co-founded Partners in Health (P.I.H.), a Boston-based nonprofit working to modernize medical care in poor and sick communities around the world. He heads the global health division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. from Harvard, where he is a professor of medicine and chair of the dept. Rollins/Partners in Health)įarmer, 59, is a legendary infectious disease specialist and anthropologist with deep roots in Boston. “His brother squatted beside him,” Farmer writes in his new book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, “weeping loudly but tearlessly - probably because he was too dehydrated to make tears.” Paul Farmer at University Hospital in Mirabalais, Haiti. They watched as two brothers vomited and soiled themselves with diarrhea as they tried to make their way to a ward with beds. ![]() Paul Farmer and three friends toured an Ebola treatment unit (E.T.U.) in Monrovia, Liberia, in October 2014. ![]()
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