Paul Farmer has been described by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder as "a man who would cure the world." Founder of the Boston-based nonprofit group Partners In Health, Paul Farmer is ...

Paul received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his PhD in anthropology from Harvard University. His years of academic training went far beyond libraries, classrooms and hospital clerkships.

Only half-jokingly, I often say that the reason that I am involved in medical education is to be able to say to students, “You don’t know who Paul Farmer is? Well, he’s just the greatest ...

The late Dr. Paul Farmer’s teaching and practice of accompaniment came not only from his deep personal and moral commitment to health care as a human right but because he knew it works (“To ...