Farmer is Editor-in-Chief of "Health and Human Rights Journal." Farmer is on the board of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy; he is a co-founder and Board Member of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. He is on the Board of PIVOT, a recently formed healthcare and research organization operating in Madagascar. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO focused on developing the Health Impact Fund. He also serves on the Global Advisory Council of GlobeMed, a student-driven global health organization that works through a partnership model. Farmer also serves on the Advisory Board of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an international student-driven advocacy organization that works on issues of medicine development and affordability. Farmer is a board member of Kageno Worldwide, Inc., a community development agency that has worked in Kenya and Rwanda. He is also on the Board of Trustees for EqualHealth, which builds critical consciousness towards health equity.