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32-558: In 1964 WHA began publication at the University of Utah Press , with a full run of four issues, and then in 1965 contracted Sunset publishing to print the quarterly called Nebraska , edited by A. R. Mortensen. The WHA's publications now include the Western Historical Quarterly . The association offers several annual and biennial prizes for essays and books, including the annual Caughey Western History Association Prize for

64-633: A University Professor , the highest honor that the University can bestow on one of its faculty members. In August 2009, Farmer was named United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti (serving under former U.S. President Bill Clinton ), in his capacity as Special Envoy. In December 2012, Farmer was appointed the United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. In 2020 during

96-457: A field notes section about Western history in applied situations, as well as book reviews, and notices of recent publications about the American West. This article about an education organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of Utah Press The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and

128-716: A hospital in Cange, Haiti . Subsequently, he attended Harvard University , earning an MD and a PhD in medical anthropology in 1990, returning to Haiti multiple times during medical school to continue his work in Cange. He completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1993 and an infectious disease fellowship in 1996. Farmer was board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease . In 1987, Farmer, along with his colleagues from Harvard Jim Yong Kim , Ophelia Dahl , Thomas J. White and Todd McCormack, co-founded Partners In Health . PIH began in Cange in

160-449: A houseboat in the Gulf of Mexico. Farmer’s father then anchored the houseboat in a primitive bayou called Jenkins Creek where the family bathed, bringing jugs with drinking water from Brooksville . Farmer prioritized his education and excelled academically in school. Farmer’s parents often read serious literature to their children, motivating them to learn as much as possible in regard to all that

192-666: A media exhibit, public program, or written work that best models professional public history practice in the history of the American West. The Western Historical Quarterly (WHQ) has been the official journal of the WHA since its founding in 1969. The journal now "presents original articles dealing with the North American West—expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories." In addition, it provides

224-953: Is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library . Founded in 1949 by A. Ray Olpin , it is also the oldest university press in Utah. The mission of the press is to "publish and disseminate scholarly books in selected fields, as well as other printed and recorded materials of significance to Utah, the region, the country, and the world." The University of Utah Press publishes in the following general subject areas: anthropology , archaeology , Mesoamerican studies, American Indian studies , natural history , nature writing , poetry , Utah and Western history, Mormon studies , Utah and regional guidebooks, and regional titles. The press employs seven people full-time and publishes 25 to 35 titles per year. The press has over 450 books currently in print. The University of Utah Press awards five annual or biennial prizes for scholarly and/or literary manuscripts. As of 2023,

256-603: The British Medical Journal , and Social Science and Medicine . Farmer wrote extensively on Health and Human Rights, the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases, and global health. Farmer pioneered the concept of community health works and decentralized models of care. He was known as "the man who would cure the world", as described in the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder . Farmer and Partners in Health received

288-802: The COVID-19 pandemic , Farmer worked with PIH to develop a contact-tracing program in Massachusetts. Farmer was editor-in-chief of Health and Human Rights . He was on the board of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy and was a co-founder and board member of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti . He was on the Board of PIVOT, a recently formed healthcare and research organization operating in Madagascar. He

320-530: The Central Plateau of Haiti and at the time of Farmer's death in February 2022 operated 16 sites across the country, with approximately 7,000 employees. PIH in Cange was known as Zanmi Lasante , the sister organization of PIH. Zanmi Lasante built schools, homes, and communal sanitation and water systems to help the community in central Haiti have improved facilities and resources. The organization vaccinated all of

352-470: The Navajo Nation. The University of Global Health Equity is an initiative of Partners In Health that started in 2015 and focused on delivering the highest quality of health care by addressing the critical social and systemic forces causing inequities and inefficiencies in health care delivery. In 2003, author Tracy Kidder 's Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure

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384-555: The Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award in 2007 for saving lives by providing free health care to people in the world’s poorest communities and working to improve health care systems globally. The story of PIH is also told in the 2017 documentary Bending the Arc . He was a proponent of liberation theology . On April 24, 2021, Farmer was named Aurora Humanitarian in recognition of his work with PIH. Farmer

416-601: The University of Utah Press offers six series: The Juanita Brooks Series in Mormon History and Culture, The Wallace Stegner Series in Environmental Studies, Utah Series on Great Salt Lake and the Great Basin, University of Utah Anthropological Papers, National Park Readers, and Inclusive Anthropologies. This series is The first Anthropological Paper was published in 1950 and new books continue to be published through

448-614: The University of Utah Press. Past lecturers include: E. O. Wilson , Carlos Fuentes , Freeman Dyson , Paul Farmer , Steven Pinker , and Toni Morrison . Originally named the Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies, this series published books in the area of history, politics, and society of the Middle East. M. Hakan Yavuz was the Series Editor. The first book published by the series

480-555: The World was published. The book describes Farmer's work in Haiti, Peru, and Russia. In May 2009, Farmer was named Chair of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, succeeding Jim Yong Kim , his longtime friend and colleague. On December 17, 2010, Harvard University's President, Drew Gilpin Faust , and the President and Fellows of Harvard College , named Farmer as

512-752: The age of 62. Farmer had been involved in medical education at Butaro District Hospital and the Butaro campus of the University of Global Health Equity, which accepted its first class of medical students in 2019. Farmer was the recipient of numerous honors, including the Bronislaw Malinowski Award and the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology , the Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award from

544-519: The best book of the year in Western History and the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America (including Mexico and Canada ) from prehistory through the 20th century. Awarded since 2003, past recipients include Ned Blackhawk , Amy S. Greenberg and Ari Kelman . The Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually for

576-712: The help of a $ 44.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Farmer created specific drug-therapy initiatives for individuals in Haiti, Peru, and Russia. With this program having some of the highest cure rates in the world, it was clear that treating MDR TB could be done cost effectively in poor countries with functional delivery systems. Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais opened in 2013 and provides tertiary care to patients, including oncology and trauma surgery services. Partners In Health also works in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Russia, and

608-680: The living circumstances of the laborers harvesting tobacco. Through this encounter, Farmer befriended many of the Haitian farm workers, and listened to their life experiences and stories. He became interested in Haiti and began learning Creole, interviewing Haitian migrant workers, and reading about Haiti 's history. In 1983, while still in school, he started working with villages in Haiti's Central Plateau to help incorporate modern health care practices in their communities. He ended up writing and co-writing more than 100 scholarly papers and several books. After graduating from Duke, Farmer began volunteering at

640-600: The local children while successfully decreasing malnutrition and infant mortality rates in the area. Zanmi Lasante also focused on AIDS prevention during the HIV crisis and successfully decreased HIV transmission rates to 4% from mothers to babies. In 1999, the World Health Organization designated Farmer and a fellow PIH worker Jim Yong Kim to facilitate global multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) treatment programs, ensuring successful deliveries of antibiotics. With

672-607: The political atmosphere around him at the time with civil war and revolution breaking out in Central America (including the Nicaraguan Revolution , Salvadoran Civil War , and Guatemalan Civil War ), and the rise of liberation theology which the Catholic clergy used to defy authoritarianism in the region. This ideology emphasized the “preferential option for the poor,” which consisted of the physical and spiritual wellbeing of

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704-487: The poor as a crucial component of the word of God. To some followers of Christianity, part of “liberation theology" that Christians need to focus on as their primary obligation involves helping the least fortunate of those around them. Farmer later became involved with migrant labor camps near campus, and came into contact with Sister Juliana DeWolf. She was working with the United Farm Workers , seeking to ameliorate

736-492: The present. Past Series: This annual lecture series was established by philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner with the hope that the "lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind." Lecturers from a variety of cultures and fields are chosen on the basis of their leadership, integrity, and commitment to human values. The lectures consider the relationships between scientific and scholarly advancements and moral values and are published in an annual volume by

768-478: The world had to offer. The family dealt with financial difficulties that often led them to work in different environments. One summer, Farmer’s family worked with Haitian migrant workers and picked citrus fruit, which was Farmer's first encounter of many with Haitian people. He was the brother of former professional wrestler Jeff Farmer . He was a graduate of Hernando High School in Brooksville, Florida , where he

800-609: Was Catholic . In February 2022, Farmer was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to The Harvard Crimson defending Professor John Comaroff , who had been found to have violated the university's sexual and professional conduct policies. After students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's actions and the university's failure to respond, Farmer was one of several signatories to say that he wished to retract his signature. Farmer died in his sleep from an acute cardiac event in Butaro , Rwanda, on February 21, 2022, at

832-733: Was Guenter Lewy 's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide in 2006; the book had previously been rejected by eleven publishers including four university presses. Since then, the series published many other works that seek to reject the historical consensus that the Armenian genocide was a genocide, by such authors as Justin McCarthy , Edward J. Erickson , and Yücel Güçlü. These books have been criticized for methodological flaws and factual errors. Paul Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022)

864-561: Was a board member of Kageno Worldwide, Inc., a community development agency that has worked in Kenya and Rwanda. He was also on the Board of Trustees for EqualHealth, which builds critical consciousness towards health equity. Farmer was married to Didi Bertrand Farmer, a Haitian medical anthropologist and community health specialist who has led several initiatives at Partners in Health. Her most recent work focuses on empowering girls and young women in Haiti and Rwanda. They had three children. Farmer

896-708: Was a member of the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO focused on developing the Health Impact Fund . He also served on the Global Advisory Council of GlobeMed, a student-driven global health organization that works through a partnership model. Farmer served on the Advisory Board of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an international student-driven advocacy organization that works on issues of medicine development and affordability. Farmer

928-575: 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. He

960-580: Was born in North Adams, Massachusetts , and raised in Weeki Wachee, Florida . He had first lived in Alabama for some of his childhood years. Then when his family moved to Florida, Farmer and his family of eight lived in an old school bus that his father had transformed into a mobile home. Farmer recounted his father as a “free spirit,” as he later on pursued commercial fishing and took his family to live with him on

992-542: Was elected president of his senior class. He attended Duke University as a Benjamin N. Duke Scholar, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in medical anthropology in 1982. During his time at Duke, he went to Paris for half a year and learned French fluently which benefited him in his future work. He then came across the work of Rudolf Virchow , the 19th century German physician and scientist that developed public health medicine, who inspired Farmer's career trajectory. Farmer’s passions were further shaped by

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1024-660: Was professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital . Farmer and his colleagues in the U.S. and abroad pioneered novel community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings in the U.S. and abroad. Their work is documented in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization , The Lancet , The New England Journal of Medicine , Clinical Infectious Diseases ,

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