Description:
Global Medicine Review is a talk show program dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, and healing. Our guests and dialogue reflect our ongoing interest in bringing to our listeners, ideas, global perspectives and information that will further, inform educate and inspire them in their quest to achieve optimum physial, mental and spiritual health. Fom the standpoint of Global Medicine Review, all systems of medicine are rooted in cultural valuations about life and our relaitonships to each other and our environment. By making listeners more aware of these disticntions, Global Medicine Review seeks to promote an understanding and synthesis that will ultimately make available to people the best that humanity has to offer in its effort to survive and flourish.

Credits:
Kamau Kokayi, M.D. is a Yale Medical School Graduate in private practice as a holistic physician for over 20 years. He is the Medical Director of the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center in Manhattan, where he leads a team of holistic practitioners currently involved in providing relief and services to uniform workers & residents below Canal Street affected by the events of 9/11. Dr. Kokayi is a long time practitioner of Chinese Medicine, classical homepathy, Applied Kinesiology and is very intereseted in traditional African Medicine and other forms of indiginous healing systems. As creator/producer and host of the Global Medicine Review. Dr. Kokayi is dedicated to sharing an understanding about health and healing that is generally not available to the public. Faybiene Miranda is co-host and co-producer of Global Medicine Review. She is a published poet, lyricist and performer. She is highly regarded for her community based participation, activism and involvment with Brooklyn's Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility where she mentors their Little Sisters Pre-teen Rites of Passage Program, oversees the Creative Toddler Program as teacher and is Director of the award winning Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. She was recently the recipient of Ifetayo's Founders Award for her dedication and service to community as a techer, mentor and artist. Her creative credits include a collaborative publication: Sun and Moon, with Mutabaruka, a featured poet in Itations of Jamaica and I RasTafari (the trinity publications), a compilation of Jamaican poets of distinction, Professor Kamau Brathwaite's publication Savacou, an anthology of Caribbean women writers that included the renowned poem "I Am That I Am." She has appeared with Mutabaruka, The Last Poets, Sandra St. Victor, Yewande, the Black Rock Coalition, Atiba Wilson and The Family Stand and her own band Highly-I produced by her husband Moonie Pusey, lead guitarist for the Grammy award-winning Steel Pulse. Her first recording "Prophecy" is still considered to be a collector's item and listed as one of the top 100 reggae musical recordings by Island Records 25 years of Reggae music anthology. She is currently compiling selections from the Global Medicine Review archives of poetry which she creates weekly on topics reflecting healing, love, liberation and spirituality.