Rupa Marya
Physician, activist, and Associate Professor at UCSF who researches the health impacts of social systems and advocates for 'deep medicine' linking ecological and social determinants of health.
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Oct 13, 2025 • 1h 8min
Land, Power, and the Plate: Ending Food Apartheid with Regenerative Justice
Leah Penniman, a Black Kreyol educator and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, joins a panel discussing food apartheid and its systemic roots. Dr. Rupa Marya, a physician and activist, emphasizes the need for deep medicine to tackle social injustices affecting health. Raj Patel connects food injustice to colonialism and capitalism, while Karen Washington shares her grassroots efforts to improve food access in the Bronx. Together, they propose actionable solutions like regenerative farming, policy reform, and community empowerment to create a more equitable food system.
Sep 8, 2021 • 1h 42min
Food Justice: Why Our Bodies And Our Society Are Inflamed with Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
Dr. Rupa Marya, an Associate Professor at UC San Francisco and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, joins Raj Patel, a Research Professor at the University of Texas focusing on food systems. They discuss the deep links between food justice and societal health, emphasizing the need to decolonize food systems to combat inflammation in bodies and communities. Their conversation highlights grassroots movements, the impacts of colonialism on health disparities, and the call for holistic approaches to reimagine health and well-being through community resilience and indigenous wisdom.
