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The Green Health Team
Our
Story
After decades of academic research, the Green Health Initiative has been co-created in 2023 by a Council of Indigenous Wisdom Keepers and an international team of scientists and experts in various fields who wish to integrate all the previous efforts towards safeguarding the valuable knowledge of Mesoamerican Indigenous Medical Science, making it available to the world by building a new healthcare paradigm
CEO &
Executive Director
Monica Berger, PhD.
Ajq'ij, Ajq'omaneel, Mayan Spiritual Guide
Francisca Salazar
Technology Director
Ludwing Ixcayau
Education Director
Dr. Maria Alejandra Rivers
Agroforestry Director
Steven White
Architecht and strategist
Alejandro Biguria
Nana Francisca Salazar is a renowned Mayan medical specialist with her own medicine center in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala.
Operations Director
Louis Prouvost
Global Partnerships Director
Isabella González
Ethnobotanical Research Director
Ana Isabel García
Laboratory Research Director
Francesca Scotti, PhD.
Communications Director
Mariela Orellana
Advisor and strategy
Lucrecia Torres
Scientific Council Advisors
Botanical Garden Curator, ZU
Herbarium Curator, ZU
Dr. Vitalino Similox, Guatemala
Universidad Maya Kaqchikel
Head of Research Unit, Swiss TPH
Institute of Anatomy, ZU
Ixs'um Gonzalez
Consejo Maya Asesor
Chair of Architect and Urban Design ETH
Professor of Ethnopharmacology and Pharmacognosy, UCL
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