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Paul Farmer and the Audacity of Accompaniment | Think Global Health

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Ithink often about Dr. Paul Farmer—the world-famous global health pioneer and founder of Partners In Health—and even more so today, the anniversary of his passing in 2022. Over the past few years, core ideas that Farmer cared deeply about have come into vogue. National Public Radio covers the "structural violence" of social and health inequality. The Atlantic publishes features on social medicine. The Economist reported recently that "trust-based giving" is now in. Fox News uses the word "equity." Farmer began corresponding with me in the early 1980s while he was a sophomore at Duke University. He wanted to be a medical anthropologist like me and came to Harvard to do his MD-PhD under my supervision. So I started as his mentor and over four decades we became close friends. Eventually he became a mentor for me as well. What drew us together was a commitment to using anthropology to improve clinical care by making it more human. Farmer developed the idea of accompaniment. He borrowed it

I think often about Dr. Paul Farmer—the world-famous global health pioneer and founder of Partners In Health —and even more so today, the anniversary of his passing in 2022. Over the past few years, core ideas that Farmer cared deeply about have come into vogue. National Public Radio covers the "structural violence" of social and health inequality. The Atlantic publishes features on social medicine. The Economist reported recently that "trust-based giving" is now in. Fox News uses the word "equity." Farmer began corresponding with me in the early 1980s while he was a sophomore at Duke Universi

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