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Dr. Aluli is the Medical Executive Director of the Moloka'i General Hospital, a subsidiary of the Honolulu based Queen's Health Care System, piloting and modeling health and wellness programs on Moloka'i and other Native Hawaiian communities.
Since 1976, Dr. Aluli has been a physician in family medical practice with the Moloka'i Family Health Center. He is also a founding member of the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana, a "grassroots" organization which has worked arduously to stop military bombing and ordnance delivery training on the island of Kaho'olawe.
In 1990, he was instrumental in ending the bombing of the "sacred" island, and the return of Kaho'olawe to the State of Hawai'i. He was vice chairman of the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance Commission, and has served as chairman of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, responsible for the "clean up" and restoration of the island.
In 1985, he founded Na Pu'uwai, Inc., the Native Hawaiian Health Care System for Moloka'i and Lana'i, a private non-profit charitable and educational corporation dedicated to the betterment of health conditions of Native Hawaiians.
Dr. Aluli is co-founder of Pele Defense Fund, which is dedicated to perpetuation of the beliefs, customs, practices, and ecosystems sacred to Pele, Hawaiian deity of the volcano.
Dr. Aluli has extensive experience in the protection of traditional Hawaiian beliefs, customs, practices, and traditions, and the natural and cultural resources needed to perpetuate Hawaiian culture in Hawaiian communities through his work.
Dr. Aluli is a founding Board Member of Aha Hui o Na Kauka, the Native Hawaiian Physicians Association, and is an Assistant Medical Professor at the University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Native Hawaiian Health.
Dr. Aluli continues his medical and community work to improve upon the cardiovascular health of his people through research and innovative programs of disease prevention and education.
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