We must acknowledge that Indigenous Peoples have been the stewards of biodiversity since time immemorial. Their tested ways of knowing and science are not only integral to conserving nature but also to restoring ecosystems and addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. 

In Matan in Indonesian Borneo, Dr Norma Sari, a Health In Harmony affiliated dentist, has been treating children of five to seven years old. Often, she is finding that their baby teeth have rotted, leaving them with no teeth until adult teeth develop. See how HIH is approaching child health care in Indonesia.

Listen to a message from Laetania Belai Djandam, an Indigenous conservationist from Borneo and HIH Board Member, about Planetary Health.

Education is critical when it comes to healthcare. The Health Guardian program in Madagascar was devised to train and employ community-selected villagers, usually women, to support healthcare services like vaccinations, malaria, and malnutrition treatments, as well as household basic health screenings.

Healthy communities can heal the planet, and costly healthcare forces Indigenous Peoples and local communities to turn to income streams such as illegal logging in order to access the life saving medicine that should be a human right. For this reason, making healthcare more accessible to rainforest communities has been a priority for Health in Harmony since its inception.

Spreading via water contact and affecting up to half of the youth population in some villages in Madagascar, schistosomiasis is this disease is second only to malaria as the most dangerous parasitic disease. HIH aims to identify areas inhabited by parasite-carrying snails in order to reduce human contact and transmission.

Happy International Women’s Day – a day to not only celebrate and uplift women everywhere. But we can’t stop at March 8. 

Meet forest guardian Lúcia Xipaya. Born in Joa, near the town of Altamira in the Xingu basin in the Amazon, Lúcia’s belief and work centers around protecting Indigenous traditions to pass down to future generations, as well as protecting the forest that makes these traditions possible. 

In the past, farmers in the Manombo region of Madagascar depended on zebu manure to add nutrients and organic matter to their soil. But with zebu banditry on the rise, many farming communities no longer keep cattle, and their soil has been suffering. That’s why communities designed a soil improvement program through Radical Listening.

As global heating worsens, 2024 is an increasingly critical year for implementing climate solutions. The time has never been more urgent to invest in proven, people-led solutions to the climate crisis.

Today at COP28, we are highlighting members of our youth delegation! Meet them in this post.

Today at COP28, WHO-IUCN introduced their Flagship Report on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Human Health, presenting key messages for policymakers on integrating health and NbS. 

Today is Finance, Trade, Equality and Accountability Day at COP28! At Health In Harmony our aim is to reverse tropical rainforest deforestation to halt the climate and ecological crises, we believe that the best way to do this is to listen to rainforest communities and invest precisely in their solutions (healthcare, livelihoods, and education).

Today at the Climate-Health Solutions Showcase at COP28, our CEO for Business and Scale, Ashley Emerson, showcased Health in Harmony's Radical Listening approach.

Today, Health in Harmony was part of the 'Proven Climate Solutions: Following IP&LC Leadership for Intersectional Climate Action' panel at COP28. Watch the recording now!

Joining this year’s COP28 in Dubai, Health In Harmony will build on our presence and advocacy at previous COP events, working to ensure Indigenous rainforest communities are at the center of climate and climate finance conversations.

Spotlighting approaches of listening and reciprocity as well as their proven results, HIH and accompanying delegates will participate in and lead a number of panel events and roundtables.