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He focuses on global inequality, ecological economics, and the despoliation of war. Southeast Asia summoned him twice. A commanding invitation at twenty-four to support containment of China using three separate wars in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The inviting command came four decades later, just whispers: \u201cCome!\u201d \u2026 to help heal what he had rallied around to destroy. His public health research allows the hidden to be found, unseen to be shaped, whispers to be amplified, truths to be known. 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