Dr. Paul Farmer enjoys a moment of singing and dancing in the Children’s HIV day care center at Partners in Health/ Inshuti Mu Buzima’s Rwinkwavu Hospital in rural Rwanda. Eric Neudel for The Boston Globe

The Woburn, Massachusetts-based Cummings Foundation made the donation, which the medical school announced Tuesday.

UGHE was founded as an initiative of the human rights organization Partners in Health by Farmer, a global health champion, physician, activist, and teacher who died unexpectedly last February. Farmer, also a medical anthropologist, was a professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School as well.

The gift will specifically establish the Paul Farmer Collaborative, which aims to build upon Farmer’s ideals and work on global health equity. The initiative will allow students, postdoctoral trainees, and faculty to travel between Harvard and UGHE’s facilities, fund an endowed professorship of global health equity at Harvard, and create clinical training opportunities for medical students and residents focusing on building surgical capacity and health innovation in low-resource settings.