# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-farmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:42:58.915Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-farmer"
name: "Paul Farmer"
slug: "paul-farmer"
description: "Paul Edward Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty to improve equitable access to health care. He was professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital."
tagline: "American anthropologist, 1959-2022"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Farmer_giving_MacLean_Prize_Lecture_in_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-10-26"
deathDate: "2022-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.pih.org/paul-farmer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump