Education | M.B., B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Adelaide Medical School, South Australia, 1961 |
Training | Residency: Adelaide Children’s Hospital, 1973-1974 Internships: Adelaide Children’s Hospital, 1972; Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1961 |
Fellowship | Research Fellow, Nutrition Clinic, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 1967-1968 |
Hospital Appointments |
Founder and Director, Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, Adelaide Children’s Hospital, 1975-1976 Assistant in Medicine, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Harvard, 1977-1980 |
Teaching Appointments |
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 1977-1978 Instructor, New School for Social Research, New York, 1995-1996 Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies, Douglass College, Rutgers University, February-May, 2001 |
Professional Certifications |
Member, Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Pediatrics Member, American Thoracic Society Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics |
Medical and Nuclear Education/ Public Advocacy |
United States Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – Founder and President, 1978-1983 – President Emeritus, 1983-Present Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) – Founder, 1980 Nuclear Freeze Voter Initiative Campaign, 1980 – Co-Leader STAR (Standing For Truth About Radiation) Foundation – Co-Founder, 1997 – President, 1999-2000 Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI*&) – Founder, 2003 – President, 2003-2006 (* now Beyond Nuclear) The Helen Caldicott Foundation – Founder, 2010 Australia and New Zealand Led education campaign among Australian labor unions about medical and military dangers or uranium mining, 1975-1976 Led public New Zealand education campaign, with Dr. William Caldicott, resulting in the official New Zealand nuclear-free policy, 1982 Founded Green Labor, a new section within Australian Labor Party, 1988 Ran as Independent Candidate for Australian Federal Parliament, 1990 Founding Patron, Parents Protecting Our Children Against Radiation, Lucas Heights, NSW, 1998 Founder, Our Common Future Party (OCF), Australia 2000 Europe Helped organize English, Scottish, West German, Dutch, Belgian, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian medical campaigns for prevention of nuclear war, 1980 |
Speeches/Presentations | Special Meetings Joint presentation with Dr. Carl Sagan before sixty members of the US Senate, 1985 Addressed UN Staff Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, 1985 Testified before Australian Federal Senate Special Committee, 1998 Personal meetings with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; Former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan; Soviet Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Dobrynin; and President Ronald Reagan, 1982-1983 Briefing with the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapeteros, January 2008 Member, International Science Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Conferences/Presentations (Selected List) |
Commencement Addresses |
Numerous commencement addresses, including Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard University School of Public Health, Williams College, Smith College, Washington University School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Salem State College, Emmanuel College, Medical College of Pennsylvania, State University of New York at Binghamton, University of Massachusetts Medical School and University of California School of Medicine, Irvine |
Awards/ Nominations |
Select List United Automobile Workers International Women’s Day Committee, Woman of the Year, 1973 Ethical Society of Boston, Humanist of the Year, 1980 Environmental Defense Center, Margaret Mead Award, 1980 Thomas Merton Society, Thomas Merton Prize for Peace, 1980 Promoting Enduring Peace, Gandhi Peace Prize, 1981 SANE Education Fund, SANE Peace Award, 1981 American Association of Humanist Psychology, Humanist of the Year, 1982 Massachusetts Audubon Society, Audubon “A” Award, 1982 Boston College, Woman of the Year Award, 1984 Massachusetts Bay Association of Writing Programs, Outstanding Writer, 1984 Brandeis University, Abraham L. Sacher Award, 1984 American Association of University Women, Peace Award, 1984 Massachusetts Psychology Association, Humanitarian Award, 1984 American Medical Women’s Association, Elizabeth Blackwell Award, 1984 United Nations Association for Australia, Peace Medal Award, 1985 Hofstra University, President’s Award, 1985 Physicians for Social Responsibility (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), Nobel Peace Prize, 1985 John Roger Foundation, Integrity Award, 1985 American Ethical Union, Elliott Black Award, 1986 Second Biennial Fate of the Earth Conference, Ansel Adams Award, 1984 Physicians for Social Responsibility, Norman Cousins Award for Peacemaking, 1992 Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, Louis Mumford Award, 1993 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, 1994 Lannan Foundation, The Prize for Cultural Freedom, 2003 Peace Organization of Australia, Australian Peace Prize, 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011 John and Chara Haas Award for International Peace and Social Justice, 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Visionary Leaders, Physicians for Social Responsibility, 2019 |
Honorary Degrees |
Selected List Doctor of Humane Letters, Emmanuel College, Boston, 1980 Doctor of Humane Letters, Salem State College, Massachusetts, 1980 Doctor of Science, Williams College, 1980 Doctor of Letters, Westfield State College, 1981 Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia College, Chicago, 1982 Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, 1983 Doctor of Laws, University of Notre Dame, 1983 Doctor of Humane Letters, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1983 Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1984 Doctor of Humane Letters, Antioch University, 1984 Doctor of Humane Letters, Russell Sage College, Troy, N.Y., 1986 Doctor of Laws, Northeastern University Law School, 1986 Doctor of Medicine, University of Linkoping, Linkoping, Sweden, 1986 Doctor of Science, Rutgers University, 1990 Doctor of Laws, Smith College, 1990 Doctor of Laws, University of Guelph, 1991 Doctor of Humane Letters, Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1993 Doctor of Education, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2000 Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Victoria, Vancouver, 2000 Doctoris of honoris causa, University of Montreal, 2009 Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2010 |
Publications see also Books |
Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do (Revised Edition), W.W. Norton, New York, 1979; revised edition 1994 Missile Envy, Bantam Books, New York, 1985 A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography, W.W. Norton, New York, 1996 (published in Australia as A Passionate Life, Random House, Sydney, 1996) The New Nuclear Danger, George W. Bush’s Military Industrial Complex, The New Press, New York (U.S.), Scribe Publications, Melbourne (Australia), 2002, revised edition 2004 Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, The New Press, New York (U.S., Canada, UK), Melbourne University Press (Australia and New Zealand), 2006 War In Heaven, with Craig Eisendrath, PhD, The New Press, New York (U.S., Canada, UK), 2007 If You Love This Planet, W.W. Norton, New York, 1992; revised edition 2009 Loving This Planet, The New Press, 2012 Crisis Without End, The New Press, 2014 Sleepwalking to Armageddon, The New Press, 2017 |
Miscellaneous | Host, “If You Love This Planet,” one-hour weekly radio program (U.S., Canada and Australia) – 2008-2012 Host, “The New Nuclear Danger”, a six-part series for Pacifica Radio, 2004 Host, “Fair Dinkum”, one-hour weekly radio program on WBAI FM in New York City, 1995-1998 Founded a new political party in Australia called Our Common Future Party – 1999 Initiated a symposium in the U.S. Congress in March 1999 on Nuclear Y2K Named one of the most important women of the 20th Century by Ladies Home Journal Films see also Film Media Coverage In print and on-line, featured in major newspapers, magazines and websites including The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffingtonPost.com, The Guardian/UK, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Life Magazine, The Nation, Ladies Home Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, Women’s Weekly, and Ita. |
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