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Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti. Co-founder of an international social justice and health organization, Partners In Health (PIH), he is known as "the man who would cure the world," as described in the book, ''Mountains Beyond Mountains'' by Tracy Kidder. Farmer is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In May 2009 he was named chairman of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, succeeding Jim Yong Kim, his longtime friend and collaborator. Kim was appointed President of the World Bank. On December 17, 2010, Harvard University's President, Drew Gilpin Faust, and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, named Farmer as a University Professor, the highest honor that the University can bestow on one of its faculty members. Farmer resides in Kigali, Rwanda as of 2008.〔 〕 He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. He is editor-in-chief of ''Health and Human Rights Journal.'' In May 2009, Farmer was nominated to head the U.S. Agency for International Development,〔''Boston Globe,'' May 15, 2009, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/15/health_pioneer_may_get_obama_post/〕 but the nomination was withdrawn. In August 2009, Farmer was named United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti (serving under former US President Bill Clinton, in his capacity as Special Envoy), to assist in improving the economic and social conditions of the Caribbean nation. == Personal life and education == Farmer was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and raised in Weeki Wachee, Florida. 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,〔http://bnduke.duke.edu/author/p-farmer/〕〔http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/01/15/paul-farmer-chosen-dukes-2015-commencement-speaker#.VLhaPIrF_3r〕 graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in medical anthropology.〔〔(Paul Farmer, MD, PhD ). ''Harvard University Department of Global Health and Medicine''. Retrieved July 22, 2011.〕 He attended Harvard University, earning an MD and a PhD in medical anthropology.〔 He and his wife Didi have two daughters, Catherine and Elizabeth, and one son, Sebastian. On June 11, 2014, Farmer endorsed fellow physician Don Berwick for Governor of Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Farmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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