Medical Anthropologist and physician Dr. Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world’s poorest populations and, in the process, has helped raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world.  Dr. Farmer is the 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.

Paul Farmer is the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book, Mountains Beyond Mountains.

“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?” – Paul Farmer