Paul Farmer is one of the most popular and richest Physiologist who was born on October 26, 1959 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. American doctor and anthropologist who is known for his work in giving health care to the poorest countries across the globe. He has been chief editor for Health and Human Rights Journal.
He is the brother to His brother is Jeff Farmer, also known as the professional wrestler Sting., who is known as Professional wrestler Sting.
Farmer was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Weeki Wachee, Florida. His brother is former professional wrestler Jeff Farmer. He is a graduate of Hernando High School in Brooksville, Florida, where he was elected president of his senior class. He attended Duke University as a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in medical anthropology in 1982. He attended Harvard University, earning an MD and a PhD in medical anthropology in 1990. He completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1993 and an infectious disease fellowship in 1996.
In 1987, Farmer, along with Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White and Todd McCormack, co-founded Partners In Health. PIH began in Cange in the Central Plateau of Haiti and currently works in 12 sites across the country. Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais provides tertiary care to patients. Partners In Health also works in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Russia, and Navajo Nation. The University of Global Health Equity is an initiative of Partners In Health focused on delivering the highest quality of health care by addressing the critical social and systemic forces causing inequities and inefficiencies in health care delivery.
He has three children, Catherine, Elizabeth and Sebastian.
