Jonathan Kaplan receiving his Robert Burns Humanitarian Awar

Jonathan grew up in South Africa and studied medicine in the University of Cape Town. After serving his internship in hospitals that provided medical care to the countrys black population, he went into exile to avoid serving in the South African Army under the apartheid regime. Since then he has worked around the world as a doctor in developing countries and crisis areas, sometimes for international medical organisations or where a clinical need became apparent. He has worked in places as diverse as Angola, Burma, Baghdad, Kurdistan, Lesotho, Namibia, Brazil, America, Mozambique, England, Eritrea and as a ships surgeon in the South China Sea. He has written awareness raising features, worked on documentary films about conflict, health and environmental issues, and written two compelling books based on his experiences.

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