{"id":404,"date":"2022-02-22T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/?p=404"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:27:40","slug":"remembering-dr-paul-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/2022\/02\/22\/remembering-dr-paul-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PaulDr. Paul Farmer, co-founder and chief strategist at Partners in Health<\/a>, died yesterday in Rwanda at the age of 62 (NYT\u00a0<\/em>Obituary<\/a>).<\/p>\n

His work in Haiti began while he was a student at Harvard Medical School:<\/p>\n

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“Even as Farmer was studying for his medical degree, he essentially lived in Haiti amid extremely low-income farmers who didn’t even have access to dependable electricity, let alone health care. Farmer was determined to change that.” (NPR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can’t do his accomplishments justice, but to quote author,\u00a0John Green (Washington Post)<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHere is what I want you to know about Paul Farmer: He simply did not accept the idea that inequality of health-care access is natural or inevitable. Because of his belief, and because of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health that he co-founded, millions of people in some of the poorest nations on Earth are alive today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We have many of his books in our collection, including:<\/p>\n