Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. Dr. Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle (DMC), an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. Bringing together farmers, artists, land stewards, cooks, activists and healthcare workers, the DMC is advancing a model of the food system based in care called Farming is Medicine. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” Together with Raj Patel, she co-authored the bestselling book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
Dr. Rupa’s website - https://rupamarya.org/
Deep Medicine Circle - https://www.deepmedicinecircle.org/
Do No Harm Coalition - https://linktr.ee/donoharmcoalition
RECENT ARTICLES by DR. RUPA:
The Deep Medicine of Dehumanizing Palestinians by Ghassan Abu-Sitta & Rupa Marya
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/01/medicine-palestine-israel-hospital
The Israeli attack on Palestinian health workers in Gaza and the failure of the American Medical Association by Rupa Marya, Vijay Prashad
Nature Article: The role of Deep Medicine and Cultural Safety in medical education to address health disparities by Amali U. Lokugamage & Rupa Marya
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-023-00423-8
LEARNING RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW:
Aimé Césaire ~ Discourse on Colonialism
https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf
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