Paul Farmer (Image: Gary Coronado)
What’s your picture of a scientific hero? Craig Venter as played by George Clooney? Richard Dawkins by Harrison Ford? Self-deprecating Paul Farmer is not your everyday leading man, yet fresh out of college he set up a charity to provide free medical care to people in central Haiti, and has challenged and improved the basic healthcare systems of other desperately poor places ever since. This week he picked up a Hero Award from one of US’s most prestigious foundations. Curtis Abraham caught up with him recently
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