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Dr.
Riach received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University
of Georgia.
He is a faculty fellow of the Honors College at F.I.U. and has been an
adjunct with the university for several years. His research and
teaching interests include the interconnections between ecosystem health and
human well-being, with a focus on the Amazon and South Florida regions. His work
combines multiple theories and methodologies from anthropology, epidemiology,
medicine, ecology, and geography. He also specializes in traditional
health knowledge and ethnobotany of native people in the Ecuadorian and
Peruvian Amazon. He has worked on health and environmental projects
among indigenous rainforest cultures including the Cayapas and the
Siona-Secoya of Ecuador and the Aguaruna and Yagua of
Peru. As a member of Project Amazonas, Inc., a humanitarian and
environmental research and education non-profit organization, he has helped
develop integrated strategies to address health, conservation, and
development needs in the Peruvian Amazon.
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