Dr. Farmer became a public health luminary, the subject of a 2017 documentary, “Bending the Arc,” and the author of 12 books. The latest, “Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History,” sought to dispel the more lurid misconceptions about the illness and focus on the dearth of health care essentials in upper West Africa.
“For all their rainfall,” Dr. Farmer wrote, “their citizens are stranded in the medical desert.”
In 2020, Dr. Farmer received the $1 million Berggruen Prize, given annually to a person whose ideas have “profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.”
The chairman of the prize committee, Kwame Anthony Appiah, said Dr. Farmer had “reshaped our understanding” of “what it means to treat health as a human right and the ethical and political obligations that follow.”
Dr. Farmer’s survivors include his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, a researcher for Partners in Health, and their children, Elizabeth, Catherine and Sebastian.
A full obituary will be published soon.
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