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Special Achievements
Helen Caldicott is the founder of the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (1982). In 1985, Helen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was won by the organisation she inspired – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. In 2001, Helen founded the United States-based Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI), which became Beyond Nuclear. In 2003, she was awarded the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom and in 2007-2009 was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board.
Helen has twenty-one honorary doctoral degrees and was named as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century by The Smithsonian; Dr Caldicott is President of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, which aims to inform the public and the media of the dangers of nuclear power and weapons, and to promote a nuclear-energy and weapons-free, renewable-energy-powered, world.
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Helen Caldicott was an instructor of paediatrics at Harvard Medical School, specializing in cystic fibrosis, and on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts until 1980 when she resigned to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war. She formed the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1975.
Resources
Image - Helen Caldicott
Image courtesy of Helen Caldicott, NPWHF collection
Link - Helen Caldicott MD -- Physician, Author, Speaker
Helen Caldicott's official website
Link - Helen Caldicott
Wikipedia
References
- Dr Helen Caldicott has written for numerous publications, authored eight books (including Nuclear Madness (1978,1994), Missile Envy (1984), A Passionate Life (1996); Nuclear Power is Not the Answer (2006): and Loving This Planet (2013). She recently edited Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (2015). Dr Caldicott has been the subject of several films, including If You Love This Planet (1982 Academy Award for best documentary) and Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident (2004 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award for Best Documentary).
