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Paul E. Farmer, the renowned Harvard physician and medical anthropologist who dedicated his career to combating global health inequities, has died at age 62.

Farmer died in his sleep while in Rwanda, according to Partners in Health, the global health nonprofit that he co-founded in 1987.

Farmer conducted pioneering work in infectious diseases, health and human rights, and social inequality as a professor at Harvard. In 2010, he was named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty distinction.

Farmer served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he received an MD and a Ph.D. He was also chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.