Paul Farmer named one of 100 most creative people in business
Posted on Jun 28, 2011
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Paul Farmer monitors a patient in Haiti. |
For the second time in two years, Paul Farmer, the co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH), has been named as one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. The business magazine’s 2011 list ranks Farmer as number 31, highlighting his ability to “change the way public health is practiced worldwide.” Farmer’s brief biography also mentions the innovative new teaching hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, being constructed by PIH and our Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante. The hospital, which opens in January 2012, will have 320 beds and offer clinical facilities not available at any public site in the country, including an intensive care unit and an operating theatre complex with six operating rooms.
Fast Company’s top 100 list recognizes other innovators committed to expanding access to quality healthcare, including: Jim Yong Kim, Partners In Health co-founder and current president of Dartmouth University; Eric Dishman, Intel's director of health innovation; and Giovanni Colella, co-founder of Castlight Health.
See the list of 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Fast Company was launched in 1995 by two former Harvard Business Review editors. The magazine features some of the world’s most cutting-edge leaders and with the goal of inspiring its readers to “think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations and create the future of business.”
Fast Company explains Dr. Farmer's creative innovation. Paul Farmer's drive to treat people considered "untreatable" -- too poor, too sick -- has changed the way public health is practiced worldwide, convincing the medical community that destitute villagers in Malawi or prisoners in Russia deserve expensive drugs, well-trained caregivers, and up-to-date facilities. Partners in Health, the not-for-profit he cofounded 24 years ago, now has 13,000 employees (most are locals) and a list of accomplishments that includes success in treating drug-resistant tuberculosis. PIH's latest project: a teaching hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, to train the next generation of Haitian health-care workers and serve 400 patients daily. "The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service," Farmer has explained, "is what's missing in global health." |
