Interviews
Natural spaces and mental health, research for equity and integration
To Margarita Triguero-Mas, PhD in Public Health from Pompeu Fabra University, researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and researcher associated with ISGlobal and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, nature and ecology inhabit an intimate fiber. From the children’s TV shows she preferred, to the
Forest Therapy research in Taiwan’s nature and urban parks: benefits on brain activity and cognition
Chia-Pin (Simon) Yu has a Ph.D. and works as an Associate Professor of the School of Forestry and Resource Conservation at National Taiwan University, as Deputy Director of the Experimental Forest at National Taiwan University and Fulbright Scholar, T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He is a benchmark in Forest Therapy around
Planetary Health: Carlos Faerron and the “big questions” for prosperous futures
Carlos Faerron Guzman lives most of the year in Costa Rica. He is Associate Director of Planetary Health Alliance, T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, Director of Global Health Programs and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Graduate School, to name a few of his roles. His hobbies are “simple”: as
UBC’s Guangyu Wang: The science of Forest Therapy, the whys and hows of the healing power of nature
Guangyu Wang was born in Southeast China. Is now Associate Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Director of the UBC’s Multidisciplinary Institute of Natural Therapy (MINT), and Director National Park Research Centre. After a childhood in the subtropical countryside among wild and domestic animals, he studied Forestry,
Historic Forest Therapy projects in France – and also in martial arts and life
Franck Bernigaud can speak about his life as a Forest Bathing walk. And indeed, his path has led him to wonderful projects of Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy in hospitals, schools and shelters, but also the martial arts he teaches have been filled with forest bathing to give his philosophy of life and his love
Forest Bathing for Corporate and the Public Healthcare Service in Chile
No one suspected that the daughter of a merchant marine who was born in the United States, emigrated to Germany during her university studies and became the Finance Manager of a German company in Chile, would be the woman with the velvety voice who guides 70 people in forest bathing walks for healthcare personnel in
