by Mark Stover | Aug 17, 2023
Dr. David Ho is scientific director and CEO of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at the Rockefeller University in New York City. Under Ho’s direction, the center’s researchers have published groundbreaking studies about how HIV replicates and how certain individuals are naturally resistant to HIV infection. They have also led the way in developing revolutionary combination drug therapies for AIDS. Ho serves on numerous advisory councils and boards and is a reviewer for nineteen peer-reviewed medical journals. He is the recipient of four honorary degrees and was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1996. In 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inducted Ho into the California Hall of Fame for his accomplishments.
by Mark Stover | Aug 16, 2023
Dr. Helen Caldicott, a leading antinuclear activist and physician, first alerted the Australian public to the potential health risks of fallout from French nuclear weapon testing in the South Pacific. After moving to America to practice medicine at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston and to teach pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, she revived Physicians for Social Responsibility to focus on the hazards of nuclear power and founded Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament. Caldicott is the author of several books; she was featured in the Oscar-winning film If You Love This Planet, which was declared political propaganda by the United States Department of Justice. Caldicott was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and received many awards for her work including the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2003, and the inaugural Australian Peace Prize in 2006.
