Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, dies at 62

Paul Farmer, the co-founder of Companions in Well being, died unexpectedly, the group introduced Monday.

Farmer, 62, died in his sleep whereas he was in Rwanda, Companions in Well being mentioned. Farmer was professor of drugs at Harvard Medical Faculty and chief of the division of world well being fairness at Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital, and he was a longtime advocate for entry to high quality well being care in among the world’s most impoverished international locations.