INDIANAPOLIS — Physician, anthropologist and international health activist Paul Farmer will discuss his globetrotting humanitarian work in a special appearance Oct. 6 at the University of Indianapolis.
“Health Care as Social Justice: Overcoming Presumed Economic Barriers to Providing Health Care to the Poor” is the title of Farmer’s presentation, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave. Admission is free, but registration is required at paulfarmerlecture.eventbrite.com.
Farmer chairs the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief strategist and cofounder of the international health and social justice organization Partners in Health. His intriguing personal background and his efforts to battle infectious disease in Haiti, Peru, Cuba, Russia and elsewhere are recounted in Pulitzer-winning journalist Tracy Kidder’s best-selling 2003 biography Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World.
A Q&A session and book-signing opportunity will follow Farmer’s talk, which is presented by UIndy’s Blanche E. Penrod Lecture Series.
Kidder, Farmer’s biographer, also will appear on campus this fall, speaking at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in the UIndy Health Pavilion. Both events are part of this year’s University Series, which carries the theme Changing the Conversation.
