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Join us for Authors! with Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH, to learn about how wellness is rooted in interdependence.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
For fans of Braiding Sweetgrass, The Future We Choose, and The Blue Zones, here is a
book about the effect our relationship to nature has on our well-being and health. In Kinship Medicine Dr. Wendy Johnson makes the case that wellness is rooted in interdependence. It’s a perspective she’s come to through 30 years working as a family physician and public health expert, supporting patients with HIV, treating communities in environmentally harmed areas, and advocating for mothers suffering from addiction. Through all of her work, she’s seen how connection to the natural world and each other are
essential to our health, and we can’t be fully well when the environments and systems we’re living with are sick and suffering.
The antidotes to many of the causal factors of poor health—loneliness, industrial diets, systemic inequality, fear of death, profit-based healthcare— are relational, both with each other and with the living earth. Through evidence from public health, sociology, anthropology, human ecology, and medicine, Dr. Wendy Johnson offers readers a clear vision of what a new society might look like, and provides concrete examples and methods for caring for our collective health together.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Wendy Johnson is a family physician, public health professor, activist, and writer who has spent her life advocating for a world where everyone can live long lives in equitable communities. Her career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique,
overseeing an urban public health department, and, most recently, directing a community clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has a Master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins and holds faculty appointments at the University of Washington and the University of New Mexico. Dr. Johnson has been a vocal activist on many progressive issues both locally and globally and is a two-time TEDx speaker.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: The presentation will be a forty-five-minute moderated conversation followed by a brief audience question and answer.
