During a recent press conference in Washington, DC, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa noted that as a nation, we spend more than $2 trillion on health care but only invest 4 cents of every dollar on prevention - this despite the knowldge that for each dollar spent on prevention, we save $6...

When a 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated northeast Japan last March, a current MPH student was seeing patients in Tokyo and a recent PhD graduate, also Japanese, was preparing to defend her dissertation. Both have returned to the affected areas multiple times to help.

As a cancer nurse in the 1970s, she had the up-close view of the wide disparities in cancer outcomes. Ever since, she has worked with the affected populations to address concerns while training a cadre of researchers to follow in her footsteps.

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