Summary: Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University; chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH). Farmer’s work focuses on community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases in resource-poor settings, health and human rights, and the role of social inequalities in determining disease distribution and outcomes. In this Podcast, Sherra Babcock speaks with Farmer about his process and own thoughts on how he came to be working with the disinfected in global society. She asks, “Which came first; the anthropologist, man of medicine or humanitarian?”.
