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.

Health In Harmony has launched ACT NOW for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet to drive donations to expand our work providing healthcare that protects people and rainforests globally.

Research shows that, over the first ten years, HIH affiliate ASRI’s healthcare, livelihood, and reforestation programs contributed to a 70% reduction in deforestation in Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park and significantly improved human health outcomes. Read more now.

Together, Health In Harmony’s new Co-CEOs will work on executing scale and global advocacy –  the main strategy of HIH’s mission.

Today, we published our 2023 Impact Report, highlighting the milestones and programs from across Brazil, Indonesia, and Madagascar, where climate and health solutions devised by Indigenous Peoples and local communities are making a tangible impact on the planet. Read report highlights now!

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. 

In a recent co-authored correspondence in The Lancet, leading scientists and conservationists – including Health and Harmony Chief Health & Innovation Officer Sakib Burza and HIH board member Neil Vora, M.D.– come together to address the importance of primary pandemic prevention.

In an exciting strategic partnership launched with the Indonesian Ministry of Health (MoH) in 2023, HIH and ASRI will work alongside MoH to scale the HIH and ASRI model of investment in community-designed solutions across Indonesia. 

Take a listen to our Research Manager Nina Finley on the Radio Paradise podcast, discussing how relationships between humans, microbes, ecosystems, and more are crucial in addressing environmental and health challenges.

In a new interview with Mongabay, Dr Burza shares how an upbringing amidst nature’s grandeur in Indian Kashmir, a doctorate in medicine and a master’s degree in public health in developing countries, and 20 years with Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders] shaped his journey towards working with Health In Harmony.

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.

As we move forward into 2024, the Health In Harmony team is excited to officially announce our collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, in Ikongo, Madagascar.

Listen to founder Kinara Webb tell the story of how Health In Harmony was founded, on the esteemed BBC World Service radio show “People Fixing The World”.

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. 

Neil Vora, MD, one of Health In Harmony’s board members, recently did a TED Talk about deforestation and public health, highlighting the work of Health In Harmony.