Paul Farmer Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Researcher and physician Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is most known for his humanitarian work in delivering “first world” health treatment to “third world” people, which he began in Haiti and has now expanded to many other countries. Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer-prize-winning novel Mountains Beyond Mountains made him renowned as “the man who would cure the world.” He is the co-founder of the worldwide social justice and health organisation Partners In Health (PIH), and he is known as “the man who would cure the world.

” Farmer is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, and was previously the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he serves as Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity, among other positions. The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School appointed him head in May 2009, replacing Jim Yong Kim, who had been a longstanding friend, collaborator, and, as of the time of this writing, President of the World Bank, before him. 

On December 17, 2010, the President of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust, as well as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, bestowed upon him the title of University Professor, the greatest distinction that the University may bestow upon one of its members of the faculty. On December 28, 2012, he was named as Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, a position he has held since 2010. He is now based in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. He has board certifications in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, among other specialties. In addition, he serves as the editor-in-chief of Health and Human Rights Journal. Farmer was nominated to be the director of the United States Agency for International Development in May 2009, however the candidacy was later withdrawn. Paul Farmer was appointed as the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti in August 2009, with the mission of assisting in the improvement of the country’s economic and social circumstances.

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