New @sussex.ac.uk film on allying with indigenous peoples to provide medical services & protect rainforest. Features our chair @drjmiddleton.bsky.social & photos by @drjastockdale.bsky.social. #PlanetaryHealth Buy medicines for the conservation clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang youtu.be/qWlO9lR0oHo

"The forest of New Guinea will stand or fall in one human generation. And what will mainly determine the outcome is going to be the tenacity and the resistance of forest peoples and the work of indigenous researchers and conservationists." #ClimateSky #GreenSky

New @sussex.ac.uk film on my @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social work with indigenous peoples providing health services & protecting rainforest (inc. beautiful photos by @drjastockdale.bsky.social). Buy meds for the conservation clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang youtu.be/qWlO9lR0oHo

Last day today of the Lewes exhibition showing of SURFACES. Learn how opening a clinic for forest peoples improved community health & enabling #conservation of 150 km² of biodiverse #rainforest (storing 1.5M tonnes of carbon). Photos @drjastockdale.bsky.social, story @drjmiddleton.bsky.social.

⚠️ A health crisis is overwhelming the Yanomami people in Venezuela ⚠️ “We have a very, very serious pandemic that is attacking children. Diarrhoea, parasites, high fever. Children are bleeding from their noses.” - a Yanomami health agent from Mavaca.

How has setting up a health clinic in Papua New Guinea protected 150 km² of rainforest from being destroyed by logging companies? 🏥 🌲 Find out in 'SURFACES', a multimedia exhibition which is part of the Climate Action! Festival at the Lewes Depot, from July 5: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

#WildernessFirstAid training to empower indigenous #biodiversity scientists to manage fieldwork injuries in New Guinea's threatened #rainforest. Explore project videos & articles: wildhealth.org.uk/papua-new-gu... Donate meds for Wanang #Conservation Area's clinic: wildhealth.org.uk/wanang

Exhibition tour begins on how we (@sussexsrp.bsky.social @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social + friends) opened a clinic for forest peoples, improving community health & enabling #conservation of 150 km² of biodiverse #rainforest (storing 1.5M tonnes of carbon). Photos @drjastockdale.bsky.social, story by me.

We published this paper 1yr ago today on #Tick hazard in the #SouthDownsNationalPark + how to control without reducing ecosystem health. Free-to-read in @peerj.bsky.social: peerj.com/articles/17483. Funding & support: @rsb.org.uk @southdownsnp.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org + others

Missionaries, disease and racism. The history of the Indigenous Hongana Manyawa people in Indonesia over the past few decades has been a struggle for survival and self-determination. Act now: svlint.org/IndonesiaB

Did you know that Papua New Guinea is home to the THIRD largest rainforest on Earth? 🌲 For #ForestDay, our researcher Jo Middleton of @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social tells us about their vital work combining forest protection and medical provision in the region. Read: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Article by our Chair + friends @uniofbrighton.bsky.social evaluating tick hazard across #SouthDownsNationalPark, with action suggestions for land managers: wildhealth.org.uk/britains-nat... Funders: British Deer Society @britishecologicalsociety.org @royalsocbio.bsky.social #LymeDisease #Ticks

Article by our Chair + friends @uniofbrighton.bsky.social evaluating tick hazard across #SouthDownsNationalPark, with action suggestions for land managers: wildhealth.org.uk/britains-nat... Funders: British Deer Society @britishecologicalsociety.org @royalsocbio.bsky.social #LymeDisease #Ticks

Free to read @bmj.com Open: Our clinical & rapid anthropological assessment of health service needs & perspectives of a #rainforest conserving community in #PapuaNewGuinea. #DarwinInitiative funded #PlanetaryHealth action. #MedicalAnthropology #Epidemiology #OneHealth bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/1...

Our chair was on EU-FCCB panel last week interviewing #PapuaNewGuinean potential biodiversity students for MPhil's at #PNG universities: 21 full scholarships now awarded. 20 more to be awarded next round, so if your #PNG keep in eye on: fccbpng.eu/scholarships...