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Global Health Matters
Dialogues: a conversation with Kinari Webb

Global Health Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 33:30


Dialogues is a new series from the Global Health Matters podcast where we bring you interviews featuring fresh perspectives on global health issues. The goal of each Dialogues is to break through the echo chambers that exist in global health through in-depth, thoughtful conversations. In this episode of Dialogues, host Garry Aslanyan speaks with Kinari Webb, a medical doctor, public health innovator and thought leader on how human and planetary health are linked. Kinari's journey started at the age of 21 when she worked as a research student in the rainforests of West Kalimantan in Indonesia. Years later, she established a non-profit organization called Health in Harmony. In her book “Guardians of the trees,” Kinari outlines how she and her team developed a novel model that provides health care as an incentive to protect the environment.Related episode documents, transcripts and other information can be found on our website.Subscribe to the Global Health Matters podcast newsletter.  Follow @TDRnews on Twitter, TDR on LinkedIn and @ghm_podcast on Instagram for updates.  Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Global Health Matters podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of TDR or the World Health Organization.  All content © 2024 Global Health Matters. 

The Human Design Podcast
#310 October 2023 Transits Update

The Human Design Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2023 76:28


We're back for another exciting transits episode with the wonderful Jenni Crowther and myself, where we recap the month of September, AND we look ahead at October and the themes coming through the planets and gates.The purpose of these transit episodes is to help you reflect on the previous month and notice things you may have not picked up, and also prepare for the energies and transits that are coming so that you can set specific intentions and goals that are in alignment with your design.Get ready for another incredible month ahead and make sure you come over to Instagram and tag us @the_human_design_coach and @jenni_crowther_ to let us know how you're going!Mentioned in this episode:Book - Guardians of the Trees by Dr. Kinari Webb - click hereBig Love, MxxJENNI'S DETAILSJenni's Website: https://jennicrowther.co.uk/Instagram @jenni_crowther_Jenni's Wheel of the Year: https://jennicrowther.co.uk/p/transits-podcastBodyGraph Chart SoftwareCreate your own Human Design chart tool with BodyGraphChart! Embed a chart tool on your own website, so you can engage with your leads, grow your business, teach Human Design the way YOU want to teach it and create success!Get BodyGraphChart here: https://bodygraphchart.com/transitions-offer/Use the code humandesignpodcast for 50% off for 12 months!OTHER RESOURCESWant more on Human Design? Explore the ways to get involved below:Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chartThe Human Design Experience Membership: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/membershipSupport The Human Design Podcast and your continued learning: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/emmadunwoodyWant to sponsor the podcast? Apply here for the "Millions of Millionaires" project: https://forms.gle/Hs2MGFSuyRrVKJ116Instagram @the_human_design_coachHuman Design FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/285696835929546/Music: Spark Of Inspiration by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comSupport the show

Soulful Streaming
A Doctor's Solution to Climate Change with Health in Harmony's Jonathan Jennings

Soulful Streaming

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 65:49


Can we save the rainforest? Can we alter climate change? Can we be stewards of hope for the environment? Yes, we most certainly can says, Jonathan Jennings, Executive Director of Health in Harmony - a global non-profit dedicated to supporting and protecting the rainforest and the people who protect it.We all know the powerful and magical connection between nature, our own well-being and our collective future and today we get to discuss the intimate details of how Health in Harmony is working hard to protect nature's collapse. This episode gives you a macro view of what's going on in our world as well as micro changes you can make within your own daily life. Themes we'll hit on: Interconnectedness of the planet's health with our own health and why taking care of the rainforest is criticalHow the idea of ‘radical listening' helps Health in Harmony truly understand what the rainforest communities need to protect their land and thrive. And, how you can apply this tool into parenting, work and relationships What you can do within your own day to day life to protect the environment We also share the story of how kindness and serendipity led us to discovering Health in Harmony founder Kinari Webb's book, Guardians of the Trees, and thereafter this interview. Also, in addition to supporting us by tuning into this episode, you can also support Health in Harmony this holiday season by donating here. About Jonathan Jonathan directs the international operations, representation, advocacy, and financial growth of Health in Harmony.After 20-some years leading humanitarian and post-conflict crisis teams across former Yugoslavia, sub Saharan Africa and south Asia, Jonathan felt like he was waking up everyday going to work to deal with the humanitarian fallout of a sick planet. He became increasingly focused on the drivers of climate breakdown and ecological collapse, particularly with the fundamental interdependence between human well-being (global health) and ecosystem integrity (global conservation). He followed his vision for change into the new field of planetary health, which he views as an antidote to a century's practice of siloed thinking.Prior to joining HIH, he spent 13+ years in leadership roles with Doctors Without Borders, conducting global humanitarian programming and advocacy. Canada. Jonathan holds an MS in Biology and Ecology and an MA in Politics and International Security.Connect with Jonathan JenningsInstagram: @HealthinHarmonyNGOWebsite: www.healthinharmony.org Additional Ways to get Involved & SourcesPlanet Protectors Series— Health In HarmonyIntroduction to Radical ListeningRainforest ExchangePNAS Health in Harmony Yale Study Publication

What Could Possibly Go Right?
#86: Kinari Webb: Radical Listening for Respect, Understanding, and Solutions

What Could Possibly Go Right?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 43:32


Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a co-founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). Dr. Webb graduated from Yale University School of Medicine with honors and currently splits her time between Indonesia, international site assessments, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Guardians of the Trees is her debut.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The interconnectedness of nature and humanity, that rainforest health is linked to planetary and human healthThe importance of reciprocity and gratitude towards the communities living in and protecting our forestsUsing radical listening to respect and understand what communities truly need to solve problemsThe value of “recognizing there is enough for us all to thrive, but only when we all thrive. That it is actually the belief in not enough that creates the scarcity.”ResourcesBook: Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet (2021) - Kinari Webb, M.D. www.guardiansofthetrees.orgSupport the show

One World, One Health
Rainforests and Healthcare - Community-Based Solutions to Deforestation

One World, One Health

Play Episode Play 60 sec Highlight Listen Later Jul 29, 2022 10:09 Transcription Available


In the first episode of the One Health Trust's podcast, One World, One Health, our host, Maggie Fox, discusses the importance of rainforests and ways to save these vital ecosystems with our guest, Dr. Kinari Webb.Who holds the answers to stopping deforestation? What does healthcare access have to do with rainforest destruction? How does the loss of tropical forests affect human health on a global scale? Let's find out!

the NUANCE by Medicine Explained.
67: A doctor's approach to climate change and helping communities in need. | Dr. Kinari Webb

the NUANCE by Medicine Explained.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 49:18


Dr. Kinari Webb, MD graduated from Yale University's School of Medicine with honors and completed her residency in family medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. She then founded Health In Harmony an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Based on information gleaned from a year spent traveling around Indonesia, Health In Harmony's project, ASRI, was sited in Sukadana, on the border of Gunung Palung, in 2007. The key focus of the work has always been radically listening to communities and responding to the needs they identify. She speaks regularly on topics ranging from the health and future of the forest, community involvement and social capital, healthcare in the global south and the link between human and environmental health. She is the author of the inspiring book Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir.

Rising Entrepreneurs Podcast
EO San Francisco | Radically Listening and Restoring Rainforests: Innovative Ways To Solve Global Heating Problems

Rising Entrepreneurs Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 31:33


Kinari Webb is the Founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Kinari, an Ashoka and Rainer Arnhold Fellow, founded Health In Harmony as a response to the devastation she saw in the rainforests of Indonesia in 2007. Kinari is also the Co-founder of ASRI, a project that is focused on implementing Health In Harmony's vision in Indonesia. Kinari graduated from Yale University's School of Medicine with honors and completed her residency in family medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. In addition to supporting Health In Harmony and ASRI, Kinari speaks regularly on topics such as the health and future of the forest, community involvement and social capital, healthcare in the global south, and the link between human and environmental health. She is also the author of Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet.  In this episode… A healthy rainforest results in healthy people and a healthy planet. So, in what ways can you help reverse the tropical rainforest deforestation and create the change the planet needs? This is the mission of Kinari Webb, who created her nonprofit after visiting the rainforests in Indonesia. As she says, her organization was born out of radically listening to the communities in the area. Since these are the people that are closest to the challenge, they understand the problem the best. There is power in letting the people you are trying to help come up with the solutions to their community's problems. When you listen, you are better equipped to execute effective solutions — which applies in businesses, too. In this episode, Corey Veverka sits down with Kinari Webb, the Founder of Health In Harmony, to discuss the inspiration behind her nonprofit, which works to reverse the deforestation of tropical rainforests and solve global heating. Kinari explains what radical listening means and how it helps with problem-solving, the importance of rainforests to the survival of humanity, and the challenges she is facing while building nonprofits in Indonesia, Madagascar, and Brazil.

Climate 21
Reversing Tropical Rainforest Deforestation - A Chat With Health In Harmony Founder Kinari Webb

Climate 21

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 34:10 Transcription Available


Climate and deforestation have always been very closely linked. But how is deforestation linked to human health, and how can improving human health, lead to huge reductions in deforestation?To answer these questions, I invited Dr Kinari Webb, founder of Health in Harmony to come on the podcast. Health in Harmony has had major successes in reducing deforestation.We had a fascinating conversation covering the connection between deforestation and health, how organic farming comes into play, and Health In Harmony's plans for Global Domination!This was an excellent episode of the podcast and I learned loads as always, and I hope you do too.The links Kinari mentioned in the podcast are:HealthInHarmony.orgRainforestExchange.orgRadicalListening.org andGuardiansOfTheTrees.orgIf you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page, head on over to the Climate 21 Podcast Forum, or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).And if you want to know more about any of SAP's Sustainability solutions, head on over to www.sap.com/sustainability, and if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover the show. Thanks.And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!Music credit - Intro and Outro music for this podcast was composed, played, and produced by my daughter Luna Juniper

Leader ReadyCast
Episode 39: Dr. Kinari Webb, founder of the nonprofit Health and Harmony.

Leader ReadyCast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 24:18


She is an exemplar of innovative, systemic thinking, as well as of the determination it takes to make a difference on the ground. I think that her journey has lessons for all of us who wrestle with the thorny social issues and who work to lead for greater good is also captured.

Climate Change with Scott Amyx
Interview with Dr. Kinari Webb MD Founder of Health In Harmony

Climate Change with Scott Amyx

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 30:59


Health In Harmony is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential to the survival of humanity.

Bosma on Business
1/8/22 - Dr. Kinari Webb, MD, Health In Harmony

Bosma on Business

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 37:25


Want to learn the secrets to business success from company owners who are not only surviving but thriving in this difficult economy? Then join award-winning entrepreneur Mike Bosma and his guests as they provide you with the insight and expertise you need to start a new business or to take your company to a whole new level. In between jobs? Why work for the boss when you can be the boss? With Bosma On Business you can be in conversation with the area's top corporate executives, community leaders and movers and shakers. The show is the ultimate business networking event and entrepreneurial incubator wrapped up in one and it's brought to you live weekly over the airwaves and through the Internet. You'll tap into a wealth of wisdom from top experts in the fields of accounting, marketing, sales, information technology, business law, human resources, corporate real estate, banking and so much more. If you're doing business in Northern Nevada or have the entrepreneurial itch, then plan on joining us on News Talk 780 KOH every Saturday morning at 10 a.m. With Mike Bosma, the Pied Piper of entrepreneurial excellence leading the way, we're Getting Northern Nevada…Back to Business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WPKN Community Radio
December 2021: Kinari Webb Health in Harmony

WPKN Community Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 26:42


An interview with Dr. Kinari Webb, who established a clinic in the rainforest in Borneo called Health in Harmony, with the goals of providing health care for the residents and thus allowing them to not cut rainforest trees to earn money to pay for otherwise very expensive health care. Based on the One Health model of integrating care for humans, other animals, and ecosystems.

Interviews with pioneers in business and social impact - Business Fights Poverty Spotlight

How do you tell a man not to cut down a tree in order to pay for a c-section for his wife? Saving, preserving and revitalising forests is complicated. Kinari Webb has devoted her life and work to tropical forests. She is the founder of Health In Harmony, the author of “Guardians of the Trees” and winner of the UN Momentum for Change Climate Action Award in 2020. During our conversation Kinari powerfully advocates for solutions to rainforest logging and degradation to be generated by the people who live, work and obtain their livelihoods from them. She talks candidly about the positive ways businesses can take action to remove deforestation from their value chains and put people at the heart of their climate action. Before sharing why local communities within forests might simply be asking for health care access and organic farming practices to regenerate and protect forests. This podcast forms part of a short series on putting people at the heart of climate action and what Climate Justice can mean for business. To find out more join the Business Fights Poverty - Climate Justice Summit: 3-5th November 2021. Register here: https://businessfightspoverty.org/climate-justice-summit-2021-register/ with this promo code and you will get free access to the Summit: BFPCJW2021 Links: Health In Harmony: https://healthinharmony.org “Guardians of the Trees”: https://www.guardiansofthetrees.org UN Momentum for Change Climate Action Award: https://unfccc.int/news/winners-of-the-2020-un-global-climate-action-awards-announced

Keen On Democracy
Kinari Webb on Her Quest to Heal the World

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 34:40


Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode of Keen On, Andrew is joined by Kinari Webb, the author of Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet, to discuss her global initiative to heal the world's rainforests, as well as to tell the story of the communities who depend on them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Living on Earth
Saving Seven Million Lives from Bad Air, Fall Gardening Tips, Putting Food By for a Sustainable Harvest and more

Living on Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 51:30


If nations adopt new air quality guidelines from the World Health Organization millions of lives could be saved every year from deadly air pollution. Also, for gardeners in the northern hemisphere, now is the time to take stock of this year's successes and failures. Find out what you can do now to build fertile soil for next spring.  And as the harvest season picks up, we share preservation tips and tricks for keeping the bounty and preventing fresh produce from ending up in landfills. Join us on October 5 for our next Living on Earth Book Club event! “Guardians of the Trees” author Dr. Kinari Webb will join Steve Curwood and Bobby Bascomb to talk about healing the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. Register at https://loe.org/events/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Living on Earth
Big Oil Under Fire for Climate Disinformation; “They Knew”: The Feds' 50-Year Climate Failure; Widespread Youth Anxiety About Climate and more

Living on Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 51:15


Industry and the US federal government have long worked in tandem to sideline climate concerns and continue to promote Earth-warming fossil fuels. Now the US House Oversight and Reform Committee has summoned top executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and Chevron and two affiliated lobbying groups to testify in front of a committee hearing in October, as part of an ongoing investigation into the fossil fuel industry's promotion of climate disinformation.   Also, for the past 50 years, the US government has known about the problem of climate change but has continued to promote fossil fuel development and done little to avert a crisis. Longtime environmental leader Gus Speth joins us to discuss his new book “They Knew.”   And a recent study found that three-quarters of young people surveyed believe the future is frightening because of climate change. What young people are expressing about their eco-anxiety and how parents can safely talk to their kids about climate.   Join us on October 5 for our next Living on Earth Book Club event! “Guardians of the Trees” author Dr. Kinari Webb will join Steve Curwood and Bobby Bascomb to talk about healing the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. Register at https://loe.org/events/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ethical Evolution Podcast
Ethical Rainforests in Harmony with Kinari Webb from Health in Harmony

The Ethical Evolution Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2020 29:42


My next guest was recommended to me by another guest where they pay it forward. Their mission is bold and full of impact and has the power of saving lives by saving trees. Kinari Webb is the Founder of Health in Harmony, dedicated to solving global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Using the innovative process of radical listening, they collaborate with rainforest communities in Borneo and Madagascar to create the change the planet needs. Over the past 12 years, they have had an incredible impact, protecting over 56 million pounds of carbon being released into the atmosphere since 2017, regenerating 50,000 acres of forest, achieving a 90% decline in illegal logging and protecting 3000 endangered Bornean Orangutans habitat along with a number of community and health impacts. I hope in this conversation you see the power in collective change, when one person takes the first step and we each do our bit and get to the grass roots of what our planet, our home needs. This podcast is brought to you by http://www.ethicalchangeagency.com (Ethical Change Agency).

Escape The Zoo
Dr. Kinari Webb - Saving Lives, Solving Deforestation

Escape The Zoo

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2020 72:14


Dr. Kinari Webb is the founder of Health In Harmony, a rainforest conservation organization that holistically addresses the health of people, ecosystems, and the planet. In a nutshell, she created an incredibly innovative model that protects the indigineous and traditional communities that protect that rainforests that protect the health of our planet. Their work has driven enormous impact in Borneo - saving human lives, wildlife, and trees - and is now expanding to Madagascar and Brazil. Dr Webb’s work: https://healthinharmony.org/ https://tedxseattle.com/speakers/dr-kinari-webb/ https://twitter.com/kinariwebb Sources for topics discussed: Donella (Dana) Meadows: https://bit.ly/2DUWyRP The Limits to Growth by Dana Meadows: https://bit.ly/36kdk8P Beyond the Limits by Dana Meadows: https://bit.ly/2YzU191 Our Planet: https://bit.ly/2qC7HE0 Planet Earth: https://bbc.in/2RDK3SN WWF: https://wwf.to/2Yssfes WWF Human Rights: https://bit.ly/2LBKgC5 Bolsonaro and Amazon: https://bbc.in/2YzRk7p Andrew Yang - Gross Domestic Happiness: https://bit.ly/2P0rPsE Shaaz Jung: https://bit.ly/2PtoZLJ UN 12 years to limit climate change: https://bit.ly/2Psrkqm Jonathan Jennings, Health In Harmony: https://bit.ly/2PjKz5i Doctors Without Borders: https://bit.ly/355mNB0 Dr. Jodi Rowley: https://bit.ly/2qyvHI9 Frog ID: https://bit.ly/36fkjjt Health In Harmony Results: https://healthinharmony.org/results/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/escape-the-zoo/support

Forum Confidential: A podcast by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization
From the US to Gunung Palung, a life-changing experience | Kinari Webb | EO San Francisco

Forum Confidential: A podcast by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2019 46:40


On the second episode of Forum Confidential, we’re boarding the EO Global Jet to take you to the US West region! Our host, Katty Douraghy from EO San Francisco, will interview EO member Kinari Webb. Episode Summary In 1993, Dr. Kinari Webb was an undergraduate studying orangutans in one of the most virgin tropical rainforests in Borneo, Gunung Palung National Park. There, she came across a disappearing natural environment and the enormous health needs of the local communities. She realized that these two problems were connected and founded the non-profit organization Health In Harmony. In this episode Kinari shares her story and the challenges she had to face. Tune in now! Timestamped Show notes 3:35 Kinari Webb’s start 5:04 No data known 6:00 Face the deepest parts of your soul 7:25 Radical listening 8:50 Ask the people who is facing the problem 10:35 I realized how blessed I was 13:34 The journey of Kinari’s organization 15:30 Gunung Palung National Park 17:18 The Box jellyfish episode 23:23 The most transcendent experience Kinari ever had 25:28 A truly alive moment 27:36 Post traumatic growth 29:59 We need to start taking care of the world that supports us 31:48 Teaching the Doctors 33:00 There is a powerful force in the teams that surround us 33:23 Entrepreneur Program to help the community create their own business 34:50 Education is not related to intelligence, it’s related to opportunity 36:00 The exquisite beauty of nature 38:30 I found my tribe 39:40 The Forum is the core 41:30 Productivity hack: stop drinking caffeine 43:40 The 7 minutes app  

Mongabay Newscast
Paying for healthcare with a healthy rainforest

Mongabay Newscast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2019 35:53


Kinari Webb founded Health in Harmony, providing healthcare to people to save Indonesian rainforests. She realized that most illegal deforestation happens when villagers have to pay for medical care, because they have little to generate cash with, except timber. The program has reduced infant deaths by more than 2/3 and the number of households engaged in illegal logging dropped nearly 90%. Her story was one of the most-read articles at Mongabay.com in 2017, so now with Webb expanding the program to new regions, we asked her for an update. If you enjoy this show, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep it growing. Mongabay is a nonproft media outlet, so all support helps. We love reviews, so please find the reviews section of the app that delivers your podcasts and say what you like about the Mongabay Newscast, and how we can improve. Thank you! Also, please invite your friends to subscribe via Android, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify or wherever they get podcasts. Thank you! And please send thoughts, questions, or feedback about this show to submissions@mongabay.com. 

Earth911.com: Sustainability In Your Ear
Earth911 Podcast, Dec. 7, 2018: Health In Harmony Heals The Borneo Rainforest

Earth911.com: Sustainability In Your Ear

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2018 16:34


Dr. Kinari Webb founded Health In Harmony (healthinharmony.org) in 2005 to help illegal loggers in the Boreo rainforest stop poaching trees. In a remarkable story, she and her team have reduced the number of families that rely on illegal logging for a living by 88 percent while virtually eliminating childhood deaths in the region. You won't forget this interview.

Earth911.com: Sustainability In Your Ear
Earth911 Podcast, Dec. 7, 2018: Health In Harmony Heals The Borneo Rainforest

Earth911.com: Sustainability In Your Ear

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2018 16:34


Dr. Kinari Webb founded Health In Harmony (healthinharmony.org) in 2005 to help illegal loggers in the Boreo rainforest stop poaching trees. In a remarkable story, she and her team have reduced the number of families that rely on illegal logging for a living by 88 percent while virtually eliminating childhood deaths in the region. You won't forget this interview.

The Story Collider
Metamorphosis: Stories of radical change

The Story Collider

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2017 31:38


In this week's episode, we bring you two stories of scientists experiencing radical change, whether at home or in 1980s Berlin. Part 1: Nadia Singh decides she doesn’t want children, believing it will detract from her scientific career, but then her husband issues an ultimatum. Part 2: Kinari Webb’s philosophy as a scientist is shaped by her experience of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a teenager. Nadia Singh is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University and an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon. She earned her BA in Biology from Harvard University, her PhD in Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and did a postdoc at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the genetics of evolution, and she relies primarily on fruit flies as a model system. Outside of work, she enjoys running (ok, jogging), cooking (ok, eating), drinking IPAs (no caveat here, it’s a true story), and playing board games with her two daughters (but not Monopoly because that game is awful and she doesn’t want to raise a pair of mercenary capitalists). Kinari Webb first developed the vision for Health In Harmony when studying orangutans in 1993 at Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia. There she encountered not only a beautiful and threatened natural environment but also the dire health needs of the people surrounding the National Park. After this experience, Kinari decided to become a physician and return to Indonesia to work together with local communities both to improve their health and to preserve the natural environment. She graduated from Yale University School of Medicine with honors and then completed her residency in Family Medicine at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez, California. Kinari founded Health In Harmony in 2005 to support the combined human and environmental work that she planned in Indonesia. After a year of traveling around Indonesia looking for the best site for this program (unmet health care needs, forest that could still be saved and a responsive government), Kinari helped co-found the Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI, which means “harmoniously balanced”) program in West Kalimantan with Hotlin Ompusunggu and Antonia Gorog. She is also an Ashoka Social Entrepreneur and Rainier Amhold Fellow. Kinari currently splits her time between Indonesia and the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Costing the Earth
Heroines of the Rainforest

Costing the Earth

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2017 27:10


The Indonesian rainforest has suffered enormous damage over the last few decades. Logged for timber and cleared for palm oil production, the habitat of remarkable creatures has declined at an extraordinary rate, leaving the region's iconic Orangutan critically endangered. Peter Hadfield has travelled across Borneo to meet two remarkable women who have found a formula to reverse the decline. Dentist, Hotlin Ompusunggu and doctor, Kinari Webb set up a clinic which offered cheap healthcare to villages that agree to stop logging in their neighbourhood. The clinic also teaches low intensity farming practices, providing local people with fresh vegetables and a new income stream, bringing the traditional slash and burn agricultural techniques to an end. Hotlin has been awarded one of the Oscars of the conservation world- a Whitley Gold Award- and the hope is that the formula can be rolled out to other regions of the world threatened by deforestation. Producer: Alasdair Cross.

Medact
Kinari Webb At HPBW - "Radical Listening: Saving Lives And Rainforest In Borneo"

Medact

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 18:57


MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation's work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.