Paul Farmer Cause Of Death: How Did Paul Farmer Die?

Dr. Paul Farmer, an American medical anthropologist, and physician, who devoted his life to fighting deadly epidemics, has died in his sleep at age 62.

Farmer spent the last several years working on four continents delivering health care to millions. He died in Rwanda.

Farmer held an MD and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was the Kolokotrones University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Farmer was a Florida native who lived in Miami with his wife and children when he wasn’t traveling or teaching at Harvard University. He was co-founder of Partners In Health, a nonprofit health care organization based in Boston with a sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, in Haiti.

Late Farmer was a recipient of many awards, one of his most recent being the 2020 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and its $1 million cash award.

Before COVID-19, Farmer devoted his life to fighting every major epidemic that had hit the countries where he devoted his time: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, Ebola, Zika, and chikungunya, and now COVID-19.

Among his many cherished accomplishments was the construction of the post-quake, state-of-the-art 200,000-square-foot University Hospital of Mirebalais that Partners In Health and Zanmi Lasante, built in Haiti.