Reflections on the legacy of Dr. Paul Farmer and mentorship

We are all mourning the loss of Dr. Farmer, a tremendous force in global health and human rights. We are heartbroken for Dr. Didi Bertrand who is the wife of Dr. Farmer, and with whom we had the great honor to share our work with during the Social Medicine Consortium in Jaltenango, Mexico in 2019. It’s hard to overstate the importance that Dr. Farmer’s life work and writing has had on so many of us who do global health equity work.  My first introduction to him was the New Yorker article…

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