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Thanks and Highlights from Health In Harmony’s 20th Anniversary
Earlier this month, in San Francisco, we held a hopeful celebration marking our 20th anniversary. 20 years of proof that, when local communities lead, real change happens: healthy people, healthy forests, and a healthy planet.
The Five Key Takeaways from Climate Week NYC 2026
This year, Climate Week NYC reached its greatest size yet. In the heart of the action, Health In Harmony and partners intentionally created a place for calm, reflection, joy, and exchange at Reciprocity House — read our five key Climate Week NYC events takeaways.
Xipaya documentary Yanuni debuts on YouTube
Join 3M+ people in watching the film, Yanuni, released on YouTube.
Cervical Cancer: A Gendered Exploration of the Preventable Cancer Impacting the Women of the Manombo Rainforest
Cervical cancer is one of the few cancers that science has figured out how to almost entirely prevent, yet it still kills around 350,000 women a year. On this World Sexual Health Day, let’s explore how this issue ties to planetary health and what the Health In Harmony team in Madagascar does to save more lives from this preventable disease.
HIH Is Headed to Climate Week NYC 2026 – Here’s What’s Happening
Climate Week NYC is back September 20–27, 2026, and this year's summit will focus on the energy, the impact, and the action that we drive together. This year, Health In Harmony is co-hosting Reciprocity House – a place to gather and receive.
Key Takeaways from SP Climate Week 2026
Reflections from João Marcelo Sandreschi, Director of Institutional Relations at Health In Harmony’s Brazilian affiliate Instituto Saúde na Amazônia (SAMA-HIH), on his participation in São Paulo Climate Week 2026.
HIH’s Key Takeaways from London Climate Action Week
In late June, London Climate Action Week (LCAW) took over the UK capital. Health In Harmony attended for the first time as an organization. Here are our key LCAW takeaways.
New research: Malaria rebounds within years of the control programme ending, leaving rural communities exposed in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil
A new study finds cases resurged rapidly in rural areas of the Brazilian Amazon after a successful local prevention programme ended, and identifies forest edge habitat among the main predictors of transmission and sustained public health investment as the key to lasting elimination.
Community-Led Health and Livelihood Programs Helped Protect Rainforests During the Pandemic
As COVID-19 disrupted rural economies, communities living near protected rainforests faced rising uncertainty. A new study in The Lancet Planetary Health shows that when communities were supported by health and livelihood programs that they designed, both people and ecosystems were more resilient.
Webinar Recap: Who Decides? Power, Gender, and the Women Leading Planetary Health
Health In Harmony convened a webinar led by sector leaders and change-making community members on the topic of gender equity in climate action. For those who missed it, watch the recording and read key takeaways here.
In Ikongo, communities at the heart of an innovative initiative to tackle climate and health crises [EN & FR]
One year after the launch of the FAGNIMBOGNA project in the Ikongo district, in south-eastern Madagascar, residents of rural communities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Health In Harmony – Fahasalamana Mirindra (HIH-FAMI) and Ny Tanintsika are presenting the initial results of an initiative combining health, the environment, access to water, education and livelihoods.
Available in English and French / Disponible en anglais et en français
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