In the Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazon, SAMA–Health In Harmony is honored to have been collaborating with the Terra do Meio Network since 2020. A key strand of this work, borne out of Radical Listening sessions with Indigenous communities in the region, focuses on livelihoods and forest economies.

Health In Harmony global team delegates joined the conference, with co-CEO Jonathan Jennings speaking on the occasion of the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s 2024 Report on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for Health.

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 honor of exchange and reciprocity, HIH's latest donors trip was a learning and sharing opportunity for supporters to better understand and witness how their contributions amplify the wisdom and solutions that already exist within community-led initiatives. Find out more at our blog.

Ashley Emerson, our CEO of Business and Scale, has been featured by the Rockefeller Foundation in a highlight of talented individuals within its Big Bets Community.

CNN’s has featured our chainsaw buyback program in a piece highlighting its role in protecting the Borneo rainforest. Find out more about the program and read the article now.

The New York Times has recently featured positive results from a study in the Bornean rainforest by researchers from HIH Indonesian affiliate Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) and Gunung Palung National Park.

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.

The approach and work Health In Harmony has involving One Health, or the integration of conservation and health, has been highlighted in the PLOS Climate Journal. The review focuses on our initiatives in Madagascar.

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.

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.