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Carol Devine is a social scientist, researcher, and writer, and Chief Operating Officer of SeeChange Initiative, a Canadian social purpose organization that supports communities in their health responses, their way. With Inuit Elders and youth from Nunavut, SeeChange co-led an Intergenerational Healing Journey to a former TB sanatorium in southern Ontario, recognizing the impact of colonial-era TB evacuations on survivors, their families, and communities, and how acknowledging this history can contribute to healing, TB awareness and stigma-reduction, and prevention today. Carol is co-author of Exploring the Intersection of Tuberculosis, Climate Change and One Health from a Community Response Perspective: A Rapid Scoping Review and Context Analysis, with partners at SSHIFTB, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), York University, and University of Toronto. She is a Community Scholar at DIGHR. Carol’s background spans humanitarian action, climate and health, and access to medicines. She led the Humanitarian Action on Climate and Environment (HACE) Initiative at Médecins Sans Frontières and Climate Smart MSF, supporting MSF’s decarbonization globally. She represented MSF at COP23 on humanitarian responses and nature-based solutions, and was the Canadian liaison for MSF’s Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. She is an International Fellow of The Explorers Club and a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Working Group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
