The American Academy of Arts and Sciences named University Professor Henry Louis âSkipâ Gates, Jr. a recipient of its Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies on Wednesday, making him the seventh honoree since the awardâs inception in 1975.
The Don M. Randel Award was established to recognize intellectuals for âsuperior humanistic scholarship,â according to the Academyâs website. Previous recipients include University of Chicago Law School professor Martha C. Nussbaum and Harvard English professor emerita Helen H. Vendler, who is also a University Professor.
The Academy plans to honor Gates with an in-person ceremony in Cambridge this fall, virus-permitting.
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Annual Berggruen Prize For Philosophy & Culture Awarded To Dr. Paul Farmer For Advancements In Global Public Health Equity
December 16, 2020 GMT
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Berggruen Prize Jury today announced its selection of Dr. Paul Farmer as the winner of the 2020 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture. The $1 million award is given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world. The Prize Jury has chosen Dr. Farmer for his impactful work at the intersection of public health and human rights.
Rethinking health and human rights
Paul Farmer, the Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The $1 million award, announced Dec. 16 by the Berggruen Prize Jury, is given annually to thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world. Farmer was chosen for his impactful work at the intersection of public health and human rights. We are proud to award Dr. Paul Farmer the Berggruen Prize for transforming how we think about infectious diseases, social inequality and caring for others while standing in solidarity with them. He has reshaped our understanding not just of what it means to be sick or healthy but also of what it means to treat health as a human right and the ethical and political obligations that follow, said Kwame Ant
Dr. Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health, wins $1 million Berggruen Prize
Farmer chairs the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital.
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated December 16, 2020, 10:22 a.m.
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Dr. Paul Farmer sat by the Tengeh Town Bridge during a visit to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2015.Jon Lascher/Jon Lascher / PIH
Dr. Paul Farmer, the cofounder of Partners in Health and longtime advocate for access to quality health care in some of the worldâs most impoverished countries, has won the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, the Berggruen Institute announced.