he visited my college one time , forgot about him until today.
dude helped millions across the world brehs...
some of his companies employ thousands of workers in poor countries.
The Boston-based organization confirmed Farmer’s death on Monday, calling it “devastating” and noting he unexpectedly passed away in his sleep from an acute cardiac event while in Rwanda, where he had been teaching.
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Though he was born in West Adams in western Massachusetts, Farmer grew up in Florida. He lived in Miami with his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, whom he met in Haiti, and their three children — Catherine, Elisabeth and Charles Sebastien — when he wasn’t shuttling back and forth between continents or teaching at Harvard University.
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Farmer’s crusade began after a 1983 visit to Haiti where he met the Rev. Fritz Lafontant, an Episcopal priest, while visiting the rural community of Cange in the Central Plateau. Watching the death of patients, who could have been saved, inspired him to study infectious diseases at Harvard Medical School. Then in 1987, he, along with others including Dr. Jim Yong Kim, former head of the World Bank between 2012 and 2019, founded Partners In Health.
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ARMER GREW UP IN A BUS AND ON A BOAT The second of six children, Farmer grew up Brooksville, Florida, just north of Tampa after his schoolteacher dad moved the family from Alabama. The family lived in an old school bus that had once been used as a roving clinic to immunize people against tuberculosis in Birmingham. His dad had converted it into a mobile home with no running water and later moved the family into a 50-foot gigantic rowboat from the USS Saratoga named the Liberty Launch. He first met Haitians and heard Creole, which he later mastered, while working in a citrus grove. After graduating from Hernando High in Brooksville, Farmer attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on a full scholarship. During visits to camps where migrants picked vegetables and tobacco, he again met Haitians, and after winning a $1,000 Berenson Prize, flew to Haiti to learn Creole and volunteer. After enrolling in Harvard Medical School, he earned a degree in medicine and a doctorate in medical anthropology.
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Farmer traveled to Rwanda six weeks ago to teach at the first class of a medical school that Partners In Heath had just opened, Nuell said, and to work at the hospital. “He was really happy and was in really good spirits because he loves being a doctor, he loves taking care of poor people; he loves teaching,” said Nuell who was in regular contact with him. “It’s just so devastating for the world, and personally.” Among his many cherished accomplishments was the construction of the post-quake, state-of-the-art 205,000-square-foot, 350-plus bed University Hospital of Mirebalais that Partners In Health and its sister organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante, built. Constructed in record time, the hospital is one of the few successes from the commitment of donors after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, which Farmer tracked as deputy U.N. envoy to Haiti under former President Bill Clinton. In a statement issued on behalf of himself, his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, Bill Clinton called Farmer “one of the most extraordinary people we have ever known,” whose pioneering work “advanced global health equity, and fundamentally changed the way healthcare is delivered in the most impoverished places on Earth.“
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Zanmi Lasante had built schools and houses and communal sanitation and water systems throughout its catchment area [in central Haiti]. It had vaccinated all the children, and had greatly reduced both local malnutrition and infant mortality. It had launched programs for women’s literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and in its catchment area had reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States. A few years back, when Haiti had suffered an outbreak of typhoid resistant to the drugs usually used to treat it, Zanmi Lasante had imported an effective but expensive antibiotic, cleaned up the local water supplies, and stopped the outbreak throughout the central plateau. In Haiti, tuberculosis still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in Zanmi Lasante’s catchment area had died from it since 1988.
As the two worked side by side to bring attention to the plight of Haitians both before and after the quake, their bond grew. Their shared admiration was such that after Clinton read a story in the Herald about how developmentally disabled babies in Haiti were being abandoned and left to die at the General Hospital, the former president reached out to Farmer to see what he could do. The request coincided with Farmer’s 50th birthday, and while he didn’t like a fuss, he reluctantly allowed friends to throw him a party. Instead of gifts, people gave donations. “He used his money from that to help buy the property where ZANMI BENI is,” said Nuell, who is involved with the residential community for abandoned and vulnerable children.
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In addition to the work he was already doing, Farmer had a new goal as of late. He planned to spend the next 10 years establishing the University of Global Health Equity in Haiti, and throughout all of the Partners in Health sites around the world. “We now more than ever will make sure we honor his legacy and create one of the best universities in Haiti,” said Elizabeth Campa, director of UGHE Haiti. ”He was so excited. He said this would be his lasting legacy.”
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
The state launched a contact tracing collaborative in April 2020, and asked Partners in Health to lead the initiative, which made more than 2.7 million calls to residents at a total cost of about $158 million, according to the state.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article258628623.html#storylink=cpy
dude helped millions across the world brehs...
some of his companies employ thousands of workers in poor countries.The Boston-based organization confirmed Farmer’s death on Monday, calling it “devastating” and noting he unexpectedly passed away in his sleep from an acute cardiac event while in Rwanda, where he had been teaching.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article258628623.html#storylink=cpy
Though he was born in West Adams in western Massachusetts, Farmer grew up in Florida. He lived in Miami with his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, whom he met in Haiti, and their three children — Catherine, Elisabeth and Charles Sebastien — when he wasn’t shuttling back and forth between continents or teaching at Harvard University.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
Farmer’s crusade began after a 1983 visit to Haiti where he met the Rev. Fritz Lafontant, an Episcopal priest, while visiting the rural community of Cange in the Central Plateau. Watching the death of patients, who could have been saved, inspired him to study infectious diseases at Harvard Medical School. Then in 1987, he, along with others including Dr. Jim Yong Kim, former head of the World Bank between 2012 and 2019, founded Partners In Health.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
ARMER GREW UP IN A BUS AND ON A BOAT The second of six children, Farmer grew up Brooksville, Florida, just north of Tampa after his schoolteacher dad moved the family from Alabama. The family lived in an old school bus that had once been used as a roving clinic to immunize people against tuberculosis in Birmingham. His dad had converted it into a mobile home with no running water and later moved the family into a 50-foot gigantic rowboat from the USS Saratoga named the Liberty Launch. He first met Haitians and heard Creole, which he later mastered, while working in a citrus grove. After graduating from Hernando High in Brooksville, Farmer attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on a full scholarship. During visits to camps where migrants picked vegetables and tobacco, he again met Haitians, and after winning a $1,000 Berenson Prize, flew to Haiti to learn Creole and volunteer. After enrolling in Harvard Medical School, he earned a degree in medicine and a doctorate in medical anthropology.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
Farmer traveled to Rwanda six weeks ago to teach at the first class of a medical school that Partners In Heath had just opened, Nuell said, and to work at the hospital. “He was really happy and was in really good spirits because he loves being a doctor, he loves taking care of poor people; he loves teaching,” said Nuell who was in regular contact with him. “It’s just so devastating for the world, and personally.” Among his many cherished accomplishments was the construction of the post-quake, state-of-the-art 205,000-square-foot, 350-plus bed University Hospital of Mirebalais that Partners In Health and its sister organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante, built. Constructed in record time, the hospital is one of the few successes from the commitment of donors after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, which Farmer tracked as deputy U.N. envoy to Haiti under former President Bill Clinton. In a statement issued on behalf of himself, his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, Bill Clinton called Farmer “one of the most extraordinary people we have ever known,” whose pioneering work “advanced global health equity, and fundamentally changed the way healthcare is delivered in the most impoverished places on Earth.“
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
Zanmi Lasante had built schools and houses and communal sanitation and water systems throughout its catchment area [in central Haiti]. It had vaccinated all the children, and had greatly reduced both local malnutrition and infant mortality. It had launched programs for women’s literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and in its catchment area had reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States. A few years back, when Haiti had suffered an outbreak of typhoid resistant to the drugs usually used to treat it, Zanmi Lasante had imported an effective but expensive antibiotic, cleaned up the local water supplies, and stopped the outbreak throughout the central plateau. In Haiti, tuberculosis still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in Zanmi Lasante’s catchment area had died from it since 1988.
As the two worked side by side to bring attention to the plight of Haitians both before and after the quake, their bond grew. Their shared admiration was such that after Clinton read a story in the Herald about how developmentally disabled babies in Haiti were being abandoned and left to die at the General Hospital, the former president reached out to Farmer to see what he could do. The request coincided with Farmer’s 50th birthday, and while he didn’t like a fuss, he reluctantly allowed friends to throw him a party. Instead of gifts, people gave donations. “He used his money from that to help buy the property where ZANMI BENI is,” said Nuell, who is involved with the residential community for abandoned and vulnerable children.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
In addition to the work he was already doing, Farmer had a new goal as of late. He planned to spend the next 10 years establishing the University of Global Health Equity in Haiti, and throughout all of the Partners in Health sites around the world. “We now more than ever will make sure we honor his legacy and create one of the best universities in Haiti,” said Elizabeth Campa, director of UGHE Haiti. ”He was so excited. He said this would be his lasting legacy.”
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na...cas/haiti/article258617863.html#storylink=cpy
The state launched a contact tracing collaborative in April 2020, and asked Partners in Health to lead the initiative, which made more than 2.7 million calls to residents at a total cost of about $158 million, according to the state.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article258628623.html#storylink=cpy
