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Maria Arapoty dos Santos: Urban Encroachment on Indigenous Lands in Brazil
Arapoty is the Chief of one of the villages in Pico do Jaragua, a territory threatened by the dense urbanization in São Paulo. She explains the main issues and how her Guarani worldview supports the community conservation efforts.
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Farah Waseem: Treating Victims of Climate Disasters in Pakistan
Farah Waseem is a medical intern and a climate activist based in Lahore, Pakistan. She started her journey in climate activism at a tender age of 11 with the World Wildlife Fund – Pakistan. In her lived experience, she talks about her first-hand experience as a medical intern treating patients who are affected by climate disasters and discusses the need for integration of planetary health in medical / health professionals’ curricula.
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Catharina Giudice: Emergency Medicine & Planetary Health in the U.S.
Dr. Catharina Giudice discusses the impacts of climate disasters on the health of communities and her patients, and the importance of preparation of health systems and communities to protect themselves and the health of our planet.
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Eva Breiland: Rethinking the American Food System to Prioritize Planetary Health
Eva Breiland, an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., comes from a family of farm owners and financers. She discusses why it’s so important to rewire our food systems, and what she’s doing now to make agriculture more sustainable.