Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet. Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
Dr. Caldicottâs guest this week is Neal Palafox, M.D., Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. Dr. Palafox has been working with Pacific region healthcare disparities and developing cancer healthcare systems in Pacific countries since 2005. He has also been the principal investigator for four international cancer projects. Between 1997 and 2009, Dr. Palafox was the principal investigator for a Congressionally-mandated program to provide medical care for Marshall Islanders who were exposed to fallout from the Bravo hydrogen bomb detonation in the Marshall Islands.