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.
2) Story from Haiti, where women know little about breast cancer awareness and treatment.
3) Report from India on rolling out a cervical cancer screening, one of the biggest killers among women in the developing world.
4) A story on the connection between infectious disease and cancers.
5) And a Q&A with Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet.
The Seattle Times published a front-page story on Joanne's reporting from Uganda: "Ugandan doctor helping reshape cancer care there."