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Physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer will be at USC to discuss his push for global health care August 21. He will give a free, public talk at 6 p.m. in the USC School of Law auditorium.
Farmer is the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. In 1990 he earned a master's and a doctoral degree in medical anthropology from Harvard.
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Farmer is known internationally for his public health work in Haiti, Russia, Rwanda, and Peru, and for establishing Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides health services and conducts research and advocacy activities on behalf of the sick and the poor.
Farmer is the subject of the The New York Times best-selling novel, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
On the morning of August 21, Farmer will address USC's freshmen, who are reading Kidder's book this summer as part of the University's First-Year Reading Experience. The book is the first nonfiction work chosen for the program.
Public interest in Farmer's evening talk is expected to be high, and, as a result, USC is asking those planning to attend to send an e-mail with the number in their party to mountains@gwm.sc.edu.
For more information, contact Jennifer Latino at 7-8869 or latino@gwm.sc.edu.
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Paul Farmer cares for a patient.
