Kawika Liu, MD, PhD, JD

Staff physician
Consolidated Tribal Health Project
6991 N State Street
Redwood Valley, CA
USA 95482

Biographical Sketch: Kawika Liu, MD, PhD, JD is an internist/pediatrician working as interim director of the Office of Health Equity at the Hawaii State Dept. of Health, as well as Clinical Faculty at the Department of Pediatrics, and Adjunct Faculty, Office of Public Health Studies, John A Burns School of Medicine. The focus of OHE is on improving health equity and cultural competency throughout the Department of Health. Kawika received his MD from St George’s University School of Medicine, his PhD and JD from the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa, MA from Columbia University, and BA from University of California at Davis. His particular interests are human rights-based approaches to health, particularly indigenous health, the human right to health, causation in public health, cancer prevention, obesity, and asthma. At OHE, he is focusing on mechanisms such as chronic disease, allostatic load, the developmental origins of health and disease, and epigenetics to articulate the determinants of health to health outcomes.

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4332.0 Let justice flow on like a river