Dr. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Si la comunidad de salud pública va a abordar la injusticia, primero debe reconocer plenamente el racismo. Como Xicana orgullosa de entrar en el campo, invito a mis compañeros a ser parte del cambio.
If the public health community is going to address injustice it must first fully acknowledge racism. As a proud Xicana entering the field, I invite my peers to be a part of the change.
Deniss Martinez is a PhD Student at UC Davis in the Graduate Group in Ecology. She is also a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
El fuego es una parte necesaria de los ecosistemas de California; debemos seguir las prácticas culturales indígenas contra incendios para obtener bosques más abundantes y saludables y revertir más de un siglo de daños.
Fire is a necessary part of California ecosystems; we should follow Indigenous cultural fire practices for healthier, abundant forests and to reverse more than a century of damage.
