Team and partners
The people who carry the work.
Maya knowledge holders and spiritual guides, scientists, practitioners on the land, organizers and advisors work here as one team. Different ways of knowing, one purpose: to regenerate the relationship between human health and the living systems that sustain it.
How the team works together is the relationship Green Health wants to build in the world: respectful, patient, and with each kind of knowledge at the table as an equal.
The team
The team
Mónica Berger González, PhD
Medical anthropology, Maya ethnomedicine and transdisciplinary research
Nana Panchita (Francisca Salazar Guaran)
Ajq'ij and Ajq'omanel, traditional Maya health specialist
Raxche' Rodriguez Guajan
Maya linguist, book editor and intercultural education
José Joaquín Ché
Community law, Ajq'ij (spiritual guide) and liaison to the ACGERS Council
Lucrecia González de Torres
Human development and knowledge integration
Muhammad Mayén
Taxonomic botany and herbarium curation
Angel Hernandez
Organizational development and operations
Franz Josef Allmayer
Regenerative economy and digital infrastructure
Erich Läderach
Financial and business advisory
Louis Antoine Philippe Prouvost, MBA
Business development and financial stability
Steven White
Regenerative education and permaculture
Alejandro Zamudio
Strategy advisor and innovation development
Ana Isabel García Ambrosy
Ethnobotany and intercultural biodiversity research
Stefany Hernandez Salazar
Traditional Maya medicine and its knowledge
Advisors in modern science and Maya knowledge
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Vitalino Similox
Maya knowledge systems, education, intercultural dialogue and institutional development
Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag
One Health, public health and epidemiology · Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Prof. Dr. Caroline Maake
Anatomy, biomedical research and health science
Prof. Arch. Hubert Klumpner
Architecture, urban design and learning places · ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Michael Balick
Ethnobotany, botany and biodiversity · New York Botanical Garden
Prof. Dr. Michael Heinrich
Ethnopharmacology, pharmacognosy and medicinal plants · University College London
Prof. em. Dr. Peter Edwards
Sustainability science and ecological transitions
The Green Health story film was produced by Holden, who works with Mónica Berger González and Angel Hernandez. The identity of IMMI was designed by Ruedi Baur and Vera Baur.
Partners and supporters, current and past
Institutions Green Health has worked with
Research, learning and infrastructure partners and supporters, past and present. Each is described by what was done together.
ETH Zurich
Research with five Maya Traditional Councils on cancer-healing systems, 2011 to 2014, the 2016 book, and design research for IMMI's first place.
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Medical anthropology, ethnobotany and public-health research, including the Green Health Project, 2019 to 2022.
University College London
Its School of Pharmacy led the Green Health Project in Guatemala, 2019 to 2022.
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Research partner in One Health and public health.
University of Zurich
Botany, herbarium and biomedical expertise in Green Health's research lineage.
ACGERS, Releb'aal Saq'e' Council
The Association of Councils of Maya Spiritual Guides Releb'aal Saq'e' co-led the Green Health Project in Petén, 2019 to 2022, and stewards IMMI Petén.
Darwin Initiative
The UK fund behind the Green Health Project, 2019 to 2022.
McNulty Foundation
An award to the work of Green Health.
Daylight Academy
An interdisciplinary network on daylight research; Mónica Berger González serves on its Steering Committee.