Awards
Farmer has won honors including:
- A MacArthur Fellowship, 1993
- The 9th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition, 2003
- Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize for Partners in Health ($1.5 million), 2005
- International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange.
- American Medical Association's Dr. Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate of Science Degree from Emory University
- 2007 Austin College Leadership Award ($100,000), which he donated to Partners in Health.
- 2007 Sandor Teszler Award for Moral Courage and Service to Mankind and an honorary doctorate from Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.
- Member of the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies (U.S.).
- 2008 Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award presented to Farmer and Partners in Health.
- 2011, named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters Degree from University of South Florida
- 2012 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Northwestern University
- 2012 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The College of the Holy Cross
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