Paul Farmer speaks to AMSA
At AMSA’s national convention in Washington, DC this last weekend, international aid hero Paul Farmer gave the keynote address to hundreds of enthusiastic medical students. Dr. Farmer, a Harvard professor, is famous for his ground breaking work on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Haiti, Russia and in Africa. In his hour long time with AMSA he encouraged medical students to continue to work for human rights and improved medical care for the poor. Dr. Farmer encouraged students to demand more from government, in terms of aid and commitment to development and global health. He was taking the place of Dr. Jim Kim, a fellow Harvard professor, who was recently named the 17th president of Dartmouth College.
You can learn more about Dr. Farmer by reading the biography, Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
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. . . or by reading some Paul Farmer. I highly recommend Pathologies of Power.