Cancer's Global Reach
Joanne Silberner, an artist-in-residence at UW Dept. of Communications, a Seattle journalist, and colleague who formerly produced many prize-winning reports on health for NPR, traveled across the planet to document the fight against cancer in poor countries with few resources.
The five-part series includes: 1) Report from Uganda on the country's only cancer doctor (until recently) for more than 30m people. In 2004, Dr. Jackson Orem teamed up with global health faculty Dr. Corey Casper and others from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.