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Ready Living PodcastCompassion is ContagiousWhat if we could create a world where compassion, resilience, health and justice form the foundation of society?Physician Hope Ferdowsian, author of Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives, and co-founder and president of Phoenix Zones Initiative, shares insights from over two decades of work caring for individuals experiencing violence, displacement, and other hardships, while also working on policy approaches to addressing structural inequities and exploitation. Through the powerful stories of individuals she’s met – Ayanna, a young girl rescued from child marriage; Doc, a physician who sought asylum after suffering imprisonment and...
2024-10-2934 min
Walk OnWalk On Podcast Episode 9: Hope Ferdowsian (MD, MPH)Hope Ferdowsian (MD, MPH) is a practicing physician, professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and president and co-founder of Phoenix Zones Initiative. As part of Phoenix Zones Initiative, Hope is building an Institute for Universal Rights, Health, and Justice. And She authored the book “Phoenix Zones: Where Strength is Born and Resilience Lives.”Hope's journey and resulting insights are at both jarring and inspirational and her enthusiasm for bringing progress out of the ashes is, infectious! Walk On is a podcast about the journey of finding passion in a life...
2024-09-2030 min
Ethics TalkAuthor Interview: “How One Health Instrumentalizes Nonhuman Animals” Dr L. Syd Johnson joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Hope Ferdowsian and Jessica Pierce: “How One Health Instrumentalizes Nonhuman Animals.” Recorded November 28, 2023. Read the full article for free at JournalofEthics.org
2024-02-1505 min
OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward AbundanceAnimal and Human Liberation | Hope FerdowsianOppression, exploitation, and domination harm both humans and nonhumans, but how can we dismantle these systems? Hope Ferdowsian, president of Phoenix Zones Initiative and a public health physician, joins us. Highlights include: Why the exploitation of animals in food production and research is linked to broader global violence and conflict; How powerful corporate interests fuel issues like hunger, climate change, extinction, and pandemics through institutionalized animal exploitation; What ethics-based policy changes in academia, public health, and global institutions can do to transform harmful systems; How the “phoenix effect” in survivors of trauma reveals pathways to healing, resilience, and just...
2023-12-221h 00
The Animal TurnBonus: Phoenix Zones with Hope FerdowsianIn this episode Claudia talks to public health expert Hope Ferdowsian about Phoenix Zones, a concept that captures places and practices that advance the rights, health, and well-being of people, animals, and our shared environments. They discuss how crises present opportunities for change as well as how humans and animal who have experienced trauma show capacities for resilience when they are afforded with liberty, autonomy, and dignity. Date Recorded: 21 September 2023. Hope Ferdowsian is a professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and...
2023-10-091h 00
The Relatable Voice PodcastHuman and animal rights, a meaningful conversation with Dr. Hope Ferdowsian.Welcome back to a brand new episode of The Relatable Voice podcast! Today, we are going to New Mexico to speak with Dr. Hope Ferdowsian. Dr. Hope is a physician, author and cofounder and president of Phoenix Zones Initiative, also known as PZI.Find out more at: https://www.hopeferdowsian.com https://www.phoenixzonesinitiative.org
2023-01-2530 min
The Truth Files with Jane Velez-MitchellEliminating the Use of Animals in ExperimentationDr. Ferdowsian unveils her proposal for a Belmont Report for Animals that she and her colleagues have created, which would take into account animals’ preferences, interests, and vulnerabilities, and would have a significant impact on using animals for research. We humans have an arsenal of human biology-based methods, and non-animal technologies could put an end to enormous suffering for both animals and humans. Animals want and require freedom, and together we can engage in a reassessment of how humans treat other animals, while embracing the medical advancements of the 21st century. In 2019, Drs. Hope Ferdowsian and Nik Kulkarni founded Phoenix Zo...
2022-03-2852 min
Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal LiberationPheonix Zones w/ Hope Ferdowsian Hope Ferdowsian, President and CEO of Phoenix Zones Initiative (PZI)—a non-profit organization committed to advancing the interconnected rights, health, and wellbeing of people and animals—joins us on the podcast to discuss how the organization is striving to realize optimal health outcomes for humans and non-human animals alike. More specifically, Hope shares how, by expanding upon the One Health approach, PZI is centering justice as a primary mechanism for realizing such outcomes. We also discuss why PZI focuses on transforming animal research in their advocacy. Plus, Hope explains the Belmont Report, including why the ethical principles such...
2022-03-261h 03