43: INFLAMED: Trauma in our DNA and the moral disaster in medicine. | Dr. Rupa Marya & Raj Patel

Dr. Marya and Raj both have amazing work that they have done and continue to do, this background will not do them justice, but to give you a glimpse of who they are, Dr. Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration. Through her work she earned her trust from Indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence towards indigenous people.

Dr. Marya advocates for creating a culture of care as the most effective way to manifest impactful change in population health. She believes the interruption of ways of caring through colonial structures disproportionately causes the suffering of Black, Brown and Indigenous people around the world. Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes.

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.

The second book he authored, The Value of Nothing, was a New York Times and international best-seller.

His first film that he co-directed, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary The Ants & The Grasshopper.

Together they authored a very important book: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

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