Assembly Participant Biographies

Michael A. Grodin M.D., FAAP, Director of the Law, Medicine, Ethics and Human Rights Program; Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry, and Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health; recipient of the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching. Additionally, Dr. Grodin is a Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center and for thirteen years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston. He served on the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, and is a consultant on Ethics and Research with Human Subjects for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization. Dr. Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights, Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Caring for Survivors of Torture and he has received a special citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his “profound contributions - through original and creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance.” Dr. Grodin was the 2000 Julius Silberger Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He has received a Humanism in Medicine Award for “compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients and their families.” Dr. Grodin has delivered several hundred national and international addresses, written more than one hundred and fifty scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited four books on health and human rights. Dr. Grodin's primary areas of interest include: the relationship of health and human rights, bioethics and the philosophy of psychiatry. For more information see: http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/grodin.html; Contact: Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, T3W, Boston, MA 02118. Tel: 617/638-4626. grodin@bu.edu.

Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and Assistant Professor on Health and Human Rights in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and editor of the international journal Health and Human Rights. The emphasis of her work is the policy and practice implications of linking health to human rights, with particular attention to women, children, gender issues, and vulnerable populations in the context of HIV/AIDS. She serves on the board of directors of Amnesty International, USA and is a member of the Global Coordinating Committee for Operationalizing Cairo and Beijing: A Training Initiative in Gender and Reproductive Health, a curriculum for health managers funded by the World Health Organization (WHO). Ms Gruskin is also a founding member of The Consortium for Health and Human Rights. Ms. Gruskin serves as one of the principal investigators of the Enhancing Care Initiative (ECI), in which she is responsible for ensuring the incorporation of human rights and gender concerns into planning for and providing care for people living with HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings. She is also the principal investigator for four UNAIDS sponsored research projects, and is helping to shape the agency’s new global strategy on HIV/AIDS. She serves as a technical adviser on the development of the WHO health and human rights strategy, and is involved in a number of projects for them intended to strengthen the health and human rights research agenda. For more information, see: http://www.eci.harvard.edu/about_eci/gruskin.html Contact: 7th Floor François_Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 ph: 617-432-4314 fax: 617-432-4310, sgruskin@hsph.harvard.edu.

Timothy H. Holtz MD, MPH, Malaria Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Instructor of Health and Human Rights course at Emory University, and Board member for Doctors for Global Health. Holtz authored two chapters for the book Dying for Growth, including one on the Bhopal disaster, and spent a year as an Columbia University HHR Fellow in Dharamsala, India, working as a medical officer with Tibetan refugees and studying mental health among nuns and students who had been tortured in Tibet. His current interests include the epidemiology of human rights abuses, labor rights, and the political economy of infectious diseases in developing countries. Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 4770 Buford Hwy NE, MS F-22, Atlanta, GA 30341. Phone: (770) 488-7782. e-mail: tholtz@cdc.gov or tholtz@igc.org.

Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD, Senior Medical Consultant Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Dr. Iacopino is a specialist in internal medicine and former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. He has enjoyed a long history of working in the field of health and human rights representing PHR and/or supervising medical fact-finding investigations to Thailand, Punjab, Kashmir, Turkey, South Africa, Afghanistan, Albania and Macedonia, Kosovo, Chechyna and Sierra Leone and documenting the health consequences of a wide range of human rights violations. He was the principal organizer of an international effort to develop UN guidelines on effective documentation of torture and ill treatment (the Istanbul Protocol) and has served as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is the former Medical Director of Survivors International of Northern California, a non-profit organization providing medical and psychological assistance to survivors of torture from around the world. Dr. Iacopino has been one of the pioneers in conceptualizing the relationship between health and human rights, and has written extensively on health and human rights subjects. He also teaches Health and Human Rights at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Contact:188 Courtney Ann Drive, Henderson, NV 89014 Tel: (702) 547-1683 Fax: (702) 547-1684 e-mail: viacopino@aol.com.

Jim Yong Kim MD PhD, Executive Director Partners in Health (PIH), a public charity working with sister organizations in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, Cambodia, and the United States to improve health outcomes for poor people. In this role, he works closely with Socios en Salud, PIH’s sister organization in Peru, a global leader in combating the spread of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. He also directs an HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program in Roxbury. As Co-Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Medicine at Harvard, Dr. Kim teaches about the links between poverty, culture, and infectious disease. His research examines the international pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical distribution and use in developing countries and he is an editor of a recent volume entitled “Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor.” Contact: 641 Huntington Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: (617) 432-2575, Fax: (617) 432-2565. jim_yong_kim@hms.harvard.edu.

Virginia Leary, Distinguished Faculty, Alfred and Hanna Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law. Educated at the University of Chicago, the University of Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, The Hague Academy of International Law, and at the Strasbourg International Institute of Human Rights, Professor Leary practiced law in Chicago and worked for the International Labor Organization in Geneva before joining the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she was a Distinguished Service Professor until coming to Hastings in 1998. A former Vice President of the American Society of International Law, Professor Leary has written widely on international law and human rights. She has taught and lectured in France, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, and The Netherlands and has served on numerous international commissions, visiting and investigating human rights and labor issues in countries around the world. Alfred Fromm was a noted California wine industry leader and Hastings benefactor. The Fromm Chair was funded by Mr. Fromm; his wife, Hanna; his nephew, Professor Emeritus Peter Maier; and Melanie Maier. On the Chair's establishment, Mr. Fromm noted, "In the end, people in the world are not that much different. It's important that students at colleges like Hastings realize that having international scholars at Hastings will help open the eyes of many young people who may not be aware of the rest of the world." Email:learyv@uchastings.edu

Stephen Marks, Director François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. Docteur d’état (State Doctorate in Law), 1979, University of Nice Dipl. IHEI (degree in Advanced International Studies), University of Paris. Additional degrees from Universities of Strasbourg, Besançon, and Damascus. The emphasis of Stephen Marks's work is on international law, international politics, international organizations, human rights and economic development, peace, and conflict studies. His current interests include integrating human rights into sustainable human development. He has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program on this topic. He is also preparing a book on UN policy and action in the field of human rights that surveys the strengths and weaknesses of multilateral diplomacy as a means of advancing human rights in peacetime and during armed conflicts. His current research on sanctions regimes addresses the role of health and human rights professionals in planning and monitoring sanctions and in affecting policy. He is also writing on priority areas of health and human rights and on impunity for mass atrocities, specifically the cases of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Hissène Habré in Chad. For more info see: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/facres/mrks.html. or contact: François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Room 705. Tel. 617-432-0656; Fax 617-432-4310. smarks@hsph.harvard.edu.

Robert Mazur Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology. Professor Mazur studies the interrelations among socioeconomic development and population changes. His current research projects in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia involve: (1) complex migration patterns associated with rapidly changing socioeconomic development conditions and policies; (2) roles of household livelihood strategies in food security and health; (3) social capital and self reliance initiatives among displaced and resettled persons in the aftermath of conflict; and (4) local conflict transformation initiatives. He is nearing completion of a five year study of socioeconomic dimensions of rural post-war reconstruction in Mozambique under conditions of extreme poverty, structural adjustment, and debt. Contact: 318 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011, (515) 294-9286; FAX: (515) 294-2303; rmazur@iastate.edu

Mark Nichter PhD, MPH, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology. He has conducted long term research in India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia as well as the United States focused on issues related to health and development, ethnomedicine , political ecology, pharmaceutical behavior, and tobacco use and dependence. Nichter's most recent research interests are harm reduction, the politics of risk, and the public's trust in medicine. Prof Nichter has published over thirty articles on subjects related to medical anthropology, is editor of a collection of essays, An Anthropological Approach To Ethnomedicine (Gordon and Breach 1994), and co-author (with Mimi Nichter) of Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies (Gordon and Breach 1996). He is the president elect of the Society of Medical Anthropology. Contact: Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, PO Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030. 520-621-2665 (office) 520-621-2088 (FAX: office) E-mail: mnichter@u.arizona.edu.

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Carlos Pazos MD MPH. Professor of Medicine, Adviser to the Cuban Public Health Minister on issues such as globalization and health, the arms race and health, and the like. He is the current President of the Cuban Medical Committee for Global Survival/IPPNW-CUBA (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985). International Co-President IPPNW 1993 - 1996. He is the former National Director of Cuban Higher Medical Education, and Former Representative of Cuba before the United Nations Disarmament Committee. He was awarded the "Albert Schweitzer Peace Achievement Award" in Stockholm Sweden in 1991. Living with the effects of the U.S. embargo and the continual threat of possible military invasion since the early 1960's, Dr. Pazos has been active for many years in the Cuban field of Public Health especially regarding preparedness services in the Organization and Tactics of Medical Services in War Times, and Medical Protection Against Weapons of Mass Destruction. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the prevention of war, on the health threats of nuclear war, and on related humanitarian issues. Professor Pazos has vast international experience on the political social, and economic issues related to health and has been invited to lecture on his efforts to achieve global peace by numerous universities, medical centers and humanitarian organizations in Latin America, the United States, Canada and Europe. Contact: by fax (Centro Félix Varela) (537) 333-328. e-mail: cfv@cfv.org.cu or pazos@infomed.sld.cu.

Prof Eibe Riedel, Chair of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law, and Vice-President, University of Mannheim, Germany. Dr. Riedel has been active in developing human rights law theory and teaching since the early 1980s when he published his post doctoral thesis "Theory of Human Rights Standards." He has enjoyed teaching positions or professorships at a number of prestigious European institutions in Mainz, Marburg, Bonn and Berlin, as well as at the University of Jena, Korea University, Seoul; University of Paris X-Sceaux and Kingston University, London. He is the author of General Comment 14 interpreting the key provisions of the UN Covenant Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the substance of which will help inform discussion at the Assembly. Contact: Tel: 0621-181-1418; Fax: 0621-181-1419 home: Haagwiesenweg 19, 67434 Neustadt/W. Tel. 06321-84819. E-mail: riedel@jura.uni-mannheim.de.

Christopher R. Rossi Ph.D., LL.M., J.D. Visiting lecturer in international law, University of Iowa College of Law and Executive Director of Humanities Iowa, the state affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a former National Security Council Director of Human Rights, Democracy and Humanitarian Affairs, The White House; former member, President's Interagency Council on Women's Issues; former member, President's Interagency Council on International Education Exchanges and Training. Prof Rossi has also worked at the Arms Control Association of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. and in the offices of Legal Affairs and Public Information at the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. He’s enjoyed teaching at the Mongolian Foreign Service Academy, American University and was a Faculty Fellow at Korea University in Seoul and at Ritsuemeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Contact: crossi@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu.

Leonard Rubenstein J.D., M.A., Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights and Adjunct Professor Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Rubenstein has spent twenty years in the field of advocacy for human and civil rights. Before coming to PHR, Mr. Rubenstein was the director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington. He has served on the national board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and is a co-founder of Mental Disability Rights International, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. In 1996, Mr. Rubenstein received the National Mental Health Association Mission Award. He has written extensively on the subject of health and human rights for scholarly and medical journals. He is co-author of the ACLU book, The Rights of People with Mental Disabilities. Contact: Physicians for Human Rights, 1156 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. Phone 202 738-5335. Fax 202 728-3053. Email lenr@phrusa.org.

Brooke Gruundfest Schoepf PhD, Economic and Medical Anthropologist, Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine Harvard Medical School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Justice. She has research, teaching and training experience across eleven African countries extending over twenty-seven years. Her research interests in Zaire/DRC date from 1974, where she taught economic and medical anthropology at the National University in Lubumbashi, and led field research in ecology and agricultural change. From 1985 to 1990, Schoepf led the CONNAISSIDA Project, a collaborative research group conducting ethnographic and action-research on AIDS prevention, in Kinshasa. In 1994 she began the study of genocide and its aftermath in Rwanda, and on the Kivu frontier. Schoepf has worked as a professor, consultant and trainer for a variety of Universities and NGOs including UNICEF and UNESCO to which she contributed to AIDS prevention planning. Her current work examines the human rights-humanitarian assistance interface in protection of refugee children in Guinea as part of a special SSRC project on Forced Migration in West Africa. Contact: Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, or 13 Spencer Baird Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone: (508)548-2953. Fax: (508)548-1358 bgscs@netzero.net.

Victor W. Sidel MD, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. After education at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and training in internal medicine and in public health, he headed the Community Medicine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and taught in the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In his work in the Bronx since 1969 he has developed teaching, research and community service programs. He has studied and written on health care in a dozen countries, with particular emphasis on China, and has been a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). He was 1998-99 Cleveringa Professor for Medicine and Human Rights at the University of Leiden. Dr. Sidel was one of the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility and of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the organization that was awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, and has served as president of both organizations as well as of the American Public Health Association. He is co-editor with Barry Levy of War and Public Health, published in an updated edition by the American Public Health Association in 2001. Contact: telephone(718) 920-6586 or fax (718) 654-7305). vsidel@igc.org.

Clyde Lanford "Lanny" Smith MD MPH, DTM&H Assistant Professor, Residency Programs in Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, South Bronx, and President Doctors for Global Health (DGH) a volunteer, not-for-profit non-governmental organization founded in1995, promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. In recognition of his hard work, Dr. Smith was honored by his alma mater in 1999, with the John Kuykendall Award for Community Service. Doctors for Global Health includes health care professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers and anyone else dedicated to the promotion of Health and Social Justice, who work within their own communities, or spend from a week to over a year working in community-defined primary care, health and social justice projects in El Salvador, Honduras, Chiapas (Mexico), Peru, Uganda and/or other countries including the U.S. For more information see: www.dghinfo@dghonline. Contact: Doctors for Global Health (DGH) Box 1761 Decatur, Georgia 30031, 404-377-3566. email: dghnews2001@yahoo.com Profile available at: www.dghonline.org/nl4/reporter4.htm. E-mail: lannysmith@post.harvard.edu.

Willian Talen (Rev. Billy), Minister of the Church of Stop Shopping, televangelist, street theater artist-activist. A master of balancing truth-to-power nobility and public foolishness. Obie Winner, followed by the members of the press from the New York Times and Village Voice to the San Francisco Chronicle and Adbusters for his antics and analysis, "preach-ins" and political "actions" and "shopping interventions," in which his "congregation" enters the store incognito and gets into discussions with each other, or with imaginary people on toy cell phones, about how messed up the whole shopping experience is. He then distills these experiences into a one-man show run as a church service. With an uncanny impersonation of a backwater TV preacher, Bill says comical, baffling things like, "We want to put the 'odd' back in God," and, "We believe in the God that people who do not believe in God believe in." His comments have also been featured frequently on the New York NPR "Morning Edition" affiliate or WNYC. For more information, see: http://www.revbilly.com/. Contact: revbilly@revbilly.com Phone:212 982-3899, 49 Bleecker St #507, NY, NY 10012

Daniel J.M. Tarantola MD is Senior Policy Advisor to the Director General, World Health Organization. In this capacity, he advises the Director General on a wide range of global health issues, including HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases, emergency humanitarian action, and health and human rights. Dr Tarantola was born in France and received his medical degree from the Paris University Medical School. He pursued his clinical postdoctoral training in nephrology and, later, his public health training with a focus on childhood infectious diseases prevention and control. He began his international career in the early 1970s with health-oriented NGOs in South-east Asia and in West Africa where he was the first volunteer of Médecins Sans Frontières, a humanitarian organization he had helped create. He joined WHO in 1974 as a member and later as the Team Leader of the Smallpox Eradication Programme in Bangladesh, home of the last case of smallpox in Asia. He remained associated with WHO in various capacities and locations until 1991. During this period he was based for over 10 years in several countries in Asia and the Pacific regions and subsequently in Geneva where he contributed to the creation of the WHO Global programme on AIDS. He left the Organization in 1991 to join the Harvard School of Public Health as a Senior Research Fellow and a Lecturer in International Health. In 1999, at the time of his re-joining WHO, Dr Tarantola was Director of the International AIDS Programme of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Tarantola has edited, authored or co-authored a number of significant publications on HIV/AIDS and on Health and Human Rights, two themes which have captured and retained his interest and commitment over the years. Contact: tarantolad@who.ch. For more information see: www.who.int/director_general/biographies/daniel_tarantola.

Katarina Tomasevski Ph.D., Professor of International Law and International Relations at Lund University, Sweden; United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, and External Lecturer at the Centre for Africa Studies, University of Copenhagen. She has held prior positions at the Danish Centre for Human Rights (Copenhagen), McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law (Montreal), the Global Programme on AIDS of the World Health Organization (Geneva) and Institute for Social Research (Zagreb). Professor Tomasevski has carried out a number of cross-national research projects ranging from ways and means to secure freedom from hunger to imprisonment of foreigners. Additional activities include working in governing or advisory bodies of a variety of human rights and other public interest and professional organizations, assignments as an external expert for various international inter- and non-governmental organizations, consultancy work for bilateral donor agencies, and frequent participation in various academic and professional conferences. From 1992-99 she was involved in a large multi-national research project dealing with the Western responses to human rights violations in 1948-1998, spanning sixty-four target countries, and analyzing economic support to violators or sanctions against them so as to determine the impact of these responses in the target countries. The on-going follow-up project aims to develop and apply human rights impact assessment, under the provisional title ‘economic costs of human rights.’ A supplementary program focussing on education was initiated in 1998 with the aim of establishing an informal network of academic, professional and activist organizations to close the existing gap in the knowledge necessary for policy-making. Tomasevski has published extensively in English as well as in French, Spanish, Danish, and Slavic languages. Contact: Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, P.O. Box 1155, SE-221 05 Lund, Sweden, e-mail katarina.tomasevski@rwi.lu.se.

Judyth Twigg Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University since the fall of 1992. Her primary area of research is health care and health policy in the Russian Federation, with a particular focus on Russia's new system of mandatory medical insurance. She has also done extensive research on the Russian aerospace industry and is currently under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press for a monograph called Critical Condition: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Russia. She has advised the U.S. Congress and several Executive branch agencies on health and demographic issues in Russia, and recently chaired a study group for the Carnegie Corporation of New York on Russian health and social policy. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science and Defense and Arms Control Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.A. in Political Science and Russian and East European Area Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. For more information: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jtwigg/ Contact:jtwigg@vcu.edu, Room 218, Scherer Hall, 923 West Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2028 Phone: (804)828-8051; fax (804)-828-7463.

Robert Weissman JD. Co-director of Essential Action, a corporate accountability group founded by Ralph Nader. Essential Action has played an important role in analyzing how intellectual property rules can interfere with access to medicines in poor countries, and in the campaign to improve developing country access to HIV/AIDS and other essential medicines. Weissman is also editor of Multinational Monitor magazine, a monthly magazine that critically reports on the activities of multinational corporations.

David Werner PhD, a biologist by training, has spent the last 30 years working to help poor farming families in the mountains of western Mexico to protect their health and rights. Project Piaxtla, the villager-run program to which he has been a facilitator and advisor since 1965, has contributed to the early conceptualization and evolution of Primary Health Care. The three main books he has written and illustrated--Where There Is No Doctor, Helping Health Workers Learn, and Disabled Village Children--are among the most widely used in the field of community-based health care and community based rehabilitation. He has worked in more than 50 countries- mostly in the Third World- helping to facilitate workshops and training programs, and as a consultant. In recent years, David Werner has become increasingly involved in social, political, and economic factors, local to global, that affect disadvantaged people's health and lives. His recent book, Questioning the Solution: the Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival, focuses on these concerns and explores possibilities for a healthier, more equitable way forward. David has received several awards for his ground-breaking work, including the World Health Organization's first International Award in Health Education in 1985, and the MacArthur genius fellowship in 1991. He is a founding member of the International People's Health Council and of HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights). For more information, see: www.healthwrights.org. Contact: Health Wrights 964 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, phone: 650-325-7500 Fax: 650-325-1080, healthwrights@igc.org.

Owens Wiwa MD, MPH. Research Coordinator for Culture, Communities and Health Studies at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (a WHO affiliated center) in Toronto, Canada, and the Executive Director of AFRIDA (African Environmental and Human Development Agency). Since 1996 he has also been the Coordinator of MOSOP, Canada (the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People). As a physician in Nigeria, he documented diseases caused by pollution from the oil industry, and documented and treated injuries presented by the victims of human rights abuses inflicted by the Military Dictatorship in Nigeria. As a result of his work and advocacy on behalf of the Ogoni people of Nigeria he was arrested on three occasions and tortured on one occasion. Dr. Wiwa went into exile in Nov. 1995 after the execution of his brother, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and proceeded to John Hopkins School of Public Health, where he became involved in their Health and Human Rights program. Dr. Wiwa has given Testimony to European Parliaments and U.S. Congressional Committee hearings on human rights abuses in Nigeria. He has been a tireless activist for the health and human rights of indigenous peoples, traveling to 80 Universities and Colleges in Europe, North America and Africa, advocating for respect for environmental and human rights by transnational corporations and governments. His articles have appeared in several leading newspapers and magazines around the world. For more information, see: www.camh.net; Contact: 250 College St., Toronto, Ontario M5T2K9 Canada tel 416-535-8501 ext 6216; fax 416-979-0564. Wiwa@camh.net or mwiwa@arvotek.net.