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Countering Failures Of Imagination: Lessons We Learnt From Paul Farmer

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Dr. Paul Farmer at the Butaro Hospital built by Partners In Health for the Rwanda Ministry of ... [+] Paul Farmer, physician, activist, academic, humanitarian, and teacher died in Rwanda on February 21, 2022. Few people in the field of global health have had a bigger impact than him. After his death, people all over the world took to social media and blogs, and wrote about how his life inspired them. My favorite was this tweet from Arcade Fire, the Canadian rock band: “Paul Farmer changed our lives forever. He showed us how to work harder for others than for yourself. He was the punkest mother fucker WE ever met.” I’ve had the privilege of interviewing him twice, once on stage in 2018 when he visited my university (McGill University), and, more recently, for Forbes, about his 2020 book on Ebola in West Africa. Both times, I was blown away by how much time Paul gave me, and the words of encouragement he had for my work on tuberculosis. Recently, for a global health course that I teach a

Innovation Healthcare Countering Failures Of Imagination: Lessons We Learnt From Paul Farmer By Madhukar Pai , Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global health, infectious diseases, and equity Follow Author Oct 21, 2022, 06:24pm EDT Oct 24, 2022, 08:31am EDT This article is more than 3 years old. Dr. Paul Farmer at the Butaro Hospital built by Partners In Health for the Rwanda Ministry of Health. He was a co-founder of Partners In Health. (Photo by William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Paul Farmer, physic

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