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Subject: Paul Farmer-- mark your calendars
From:    "Mary Jane Berman" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Wed, April 4, 2007 2:50 pm
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Dear ABFAS friends and colleagues,

Please help us publicize the Paul Farmer visit to your colleagues,
students, friends, and associates. As you know his coming here is huge--
he's going to be the commencement speaker at Emory in May, so we are in
good company, no?  It took us two years to convince him to come here and
so, we need to show our support! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MEETING HIM,
PLEASE LET ME KNOW.  HE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT 3:00 -4:30 P.M. THE DAY OF
HIS TALK. I also hope to see you at his presentation. Thanks in advance,
Mary Jane Berman, Center for American and World Cultures

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
"PAUL FARMER, A MAN WHO WOULD CURE THE WORLD"
Paul Farmer, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor, Department of Social
Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine  "Global Vulnerability and
Health Care Distribution" Lecture
7:30 p.m. Millett Assembly Hall

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Donald C.
Faber Scholar-in-Residence Fund of the Honors and Scholars Program, and
the Harry Armogida Memorial Lecture Series Fund of the School of Education
and Applied Professions with support from the Black World Studies Program,
the Departments of Anthropology, Educational Leadership, Microbiology,
Physical Education, Health, and Sports Studies, Sociology and Gerontology,
the Graduate School, the Grayson-Kirk Fund of the International Studies
Program, the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute, the Institute of
Environmental Sciences, and the Women's Center

Some information about Paul Farmer (from
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/people/faculty/PaulFarmer.html)
Paul Farmer founding director of Partners In Health, an international
charity organization that provides direct health care services and
undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are
sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s work draws primarily on active
clinical practice (he is an attending physician in infectious diseases and
chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and medical director of a
charity hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti) and focuses on
diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor. Along with his
colleagues at BWH, in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
at Harvard Medical School, and in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, Dr. Farmer has
pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and
tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis). Dr. Farmer and
his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics
who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in
resource-poor settings.

Dr. Farmer has written extensively about health and human rights, and
about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of
infectious diseases. He is the author of Pathologies of Power (University
of California Press, 2003), Infections and Inequalities (University of
California Press, 1998), The Uses of Haiti (Common Courage Press, 1994),
and AIDS and Accusation (University of California Press, 1992). In
addition, he is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDS (Common Courage
Press, 1996) and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
(Harvard Medical School and Open Society Institute, 1999).

Dr. Farmer is the recipient of the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the
Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the
American Medical Association’s Outstanding International Physician (Nathan
Davis) Award, and the Heinz Humanitarian Award. In 1993, he was awarded a
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius award” in
recognition of his work. Dr. Farmer is the subject of Pulitzer Prizewinner
Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a
Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2003).

Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his
M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the Presley Professor of
Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard
Medical School.

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