This Q&A article is with People-Planet Connection Champion, Dr. Joan L. Castro, M.D., Executive Vice-President of PATH Foundation Philippines Inc., an organization renowned for its dedication to advancing health equity and innovation.
The climate crisis demands nuanced, holistic, and equitable solutions that integrate approaches at the nexus of population, health, and gender, firmly grounded in local knowledge and needs.
This Q&A article is with People-Planet Connection Champion, Edith Ngunjiri, technical advisor for Health and Environment Partnerships at Blue Ventures.
Governments and communities can best adapt to climate change’s impacts with approaches that utilize population data in planning, reinforce agency for women and youth, and draw on local knowledge for contextual solutions.
On May 25, Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a webinar highlighting unique experiences implementing cross-sectoral integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) activities in Kenya and Uganda.
CHASE Africa is a UK-based non-governmental organization that empowers rural communities in Kenya and Uganda through mobile health and family planning outreach clinics, alongside sexual and reproductive health and rights education, and support with natural resource management.
While the world’s wealthiest economies have largely driven greenhouse gas emissions through overconsumption, the effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by low- and middle-income countries, which bear the brunt of rising seas, extreme weather, drought, and desertification.
When I started the Master of Public Health program at Johns Hopkins University, I thought I knew the ins and outs of my specialty. However, for my practical experience, I wanted to steer myself away from the ideologies I had already studied and follow a different path in order to build my competency across the dynamic field that is public health.
The Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy, founded in 2010, is a Ugandan NGO that serves women, children, and adolescents in the poorest communities to help them access improved livelihoods, including better health care and education.
Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT) is a registered Ugandan non-governmental organization that is driven by its mission to enable women and girls in rural fishing communities to effectively engage in socioeconomic and political development for sustainable livelihoods.
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