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Dr. Paul Farmer, Griffith Honors Forum Lecturer

Location: Performing Arts Center

Medical anthropologist, physician, and human rights activist Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating the world's poorest populations. His honorable and successful work was documented in the 2004 Tracy Kidder work, Mountains Beyond Mountains, the subject of SDSU’s first common read, Fall, 2009.  Farmer is a founding director of Partners in Health, an international charitable organization providing direct healthcare services to the sick and those living in poverty. Farmer has worked in infectious disease control for many years, and is a world-renowned authority on tuberculosis treatment and control. For more information, call the Honors College, event sponsor, at 605-688-5268.

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