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Global health champion Paul Farmer dies at 62
Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his Partners in Health group said.
The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda."
Farmer's work on providing healthcare solutions to poorer countries brought him wide acclaim. A 2003 book profiling him, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," called him "the man who would cure the world."
Samantha Power, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted that Farmer was "a giant" in his field.
"Devastating news," she posted. "Paul Farmer gave everything -- everything -- to others. He saw the worst, and yet did all he could to bring out the best in everyone he encountered."
Pulmonologist and medical analyst Dr Vin Gupta tweeted: "It is hard to overstate the impact Dr Paul Farmer had on the medical profession."
And actor Edward Norton, a social and environmental activist, called Farmer "one of the most loving, funny, generous & inspiring people to grace humanity with his soul in our lifetimes."
Working in Haiti in 1987, Farmer co-founded Partners in Health to help devise and deliver better healthcare in poor and badly underserved countries.
A co-founder and close longtime associate was Jim Yong Kim, who went on to lead the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
In 2009, Farmer succeeded Kim as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
The same year he was named a UN deputy special envoy to Haiti, working with Bill Clinton.
Farmer held that position at the time of the island's devastating 2010 earthquake, and soon was headed to Haiti on an airplane full of physicians.
Farmer, a lifelong advocate for the poor Caribbean nation, co-founded the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.
He was editor in chief of the journal Health and Human Rights, and wrote extensively on the juncture of those two fields.
Farmer was also chief of the division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
He, Kim and another Partners in Health co-founder, Ophelia Dahl -- daughter of British writer Roald Dahl and American actress Patricia Neal -- are featured in a 2017 documentary, "Bending the Arc."
In addition to Rwanda and Haiti, Partners in Health works in Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Russia and Sierra Leone, as well as in Navajo communities in the United States.
Farmer was married to Didi Bertrand Farmer, a Haitian medical anthropologist.
L.Mason--AMWN