Caldicott biography

Dr. Helen Caldicott resigned from Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston so that she could devote herself to Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Caldicott biography

As she said at the time, "Why am I treating these children when they might all be killed?" Since 1971, she has waged a vigorous international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the changes necessary to stop environmental destruction and nuclear war.

Helen Caldicott was born in 1938 in Melbourne, Australia, and began her career as a pediatrician in Adelaide, where she founded a cystic fibrosis clinic at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 1975.

Stirred by the French government's atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific and the potential human and environmental consequences, she became involved in antinuclear activism in 1971, leading demonstrations and boycotts.

In 1975, she worked with Australian trade unions to e