Health in Harmony - Saving Forests • Saving Lives

Introduced to what would become the backbone of her life’s work, Clare Wolfowitz first experienced Indonesia as a 16-year old student-participant in AFS (formerly the American Field Service). Her destination, Jogjakarta, located in Central Java, a “beautiful, old city” that captured her intellectual, spiritual and anthropological curiosity. Her homestay father was a doctor who served…

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Dining for Women, established in 2002 by Marsha Wallace, a nurse and mother of four from South Carolina, funds programs that foster good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency to make a positive difference through the power of collective giving. Health In Harmony is honored to be Dining For Women’s featured organization for the month of…

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  For the one year anniversary of the Forest Guardian program, Hotlin Ompusunggu, DDS, co-founder of ASRI, talks about its inception. Based on the core values and philosophy of HIH and ASRI – that community be at the center, involved in and own the solutions of change – Forest Guardians have inspired a 45% increase…

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The likelihood that the 90,000 hectare-Gunung Palung National Park will perish without intervention is high. By some estimates, at least 20% has been lost in the last decade. Enter the Forest Guardians. In 2010, there were only four “green” villages surrounding the Park, few organic farming communities and no Forest Guardians. Today, there are thirty…

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by Dr. Abhimanyu (Manu) Uberoi Extremely eager to embark on a once in a lifetime experience, I was elated when I found out I was accepted to the Johnson & Johnson Global Scholars, and even more excited that I got my first choice: Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). Once there, I was flabbergasted and able to…

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By Hotlin Ompusunggu, DDS and volunteer Alexandra Ristow Alexandra Ristow, a Yale Medical Student, shares her volunteer experience with the ASRI project in Sukadana, and I reflect on trust. “For months before my rotation in ASRI clinic, I read updates from on-site volunteers and spoke to classmates who had worked with Health In Harmony. However,…

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By: Christina Fitch, DO, MPH; Director, HIH Board of Directors As a doctor, I work in several settings. But, the thing that everyone wants to talk to me about is my volunteer work with Health In Harmony (HIH). Likely this is because it is the component of my work that I feel most passionate about…

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