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Rupa Marya

Physician, Activist, Artist & Writer; Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

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Rupa Marya Biography

Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, artist and writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning and restoration.

In 2021, she published her first book with political ecologist, food system activist and policy professor Raj Patel, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. This book advances a new level of diagnosis that incorporates history and lines of power into our understanding of the root causes of health disparities and the rise of inflammatory disease in industrialized places, offering compelling treatment options for what is ailing people and the planet.

Marya is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a group of healthcare workers committed to changing social structures that make health impossible for different groups of people. Through her work with the coalition, she has worked on the health impacts of police violence specifically and the health legacies of colonialism globally.

Her work in social advocacy in health has earned her trust from Indigenous communities where she lives, in Ohlone territory and in places where she has served, such as Lakota territory. In 2016, she was invited to Standing Rock to assist with medical response to increasing state violence towards indigenous people protecting their sovereign land in the face of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Through her investigations, she has been developing an understanding of the greatest health challenges we face, including climate change, as a consequence of colonialism and the interruption of traditional ways of caring. At the invitation of Lakota elders, she is helping to develop a clinic to decolonize food and medicine in Lakota territory to serve the indigenous communities, the Mni Wiconi Health Clinic and Farm.

Marya advocates for creating a culture of care as the most effective way to manifest impactful change in population health. She believes the interruption of ways of caring through colonial structures disproportionately causes the suffering of Black, Brown and Indigenous people around the world. Through changing those colonial structures and through reasserting the primacy of our relationships to the earth, to our foods and to one another, holistic health for all becomes achievable.

In addition to her work in medicine and writing, Rupa is also the composer and front-woman for Rupa and the April Fishes, a polyglot band who has traveled to over 29 countries sharing musical soundscapes of building an alternative world that is beautiful, inspiring, deep and empowering. She attributes her views wellness as the direct outcome of playing music professionally for over 20 years, traveling with her band to witness the impact of social structures on suffering. Rupa’s compositions defy easy categorization of genre. As Legend Gil Scott-Heron described it: “This is Liberation Music.”

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/08/2024.

Rupa Marya Videos

  • Rupa Marya on Deep Medicine / Fault in Our SARS book launch
    Rupa Marya on Deep Medicine / "Fault in Our SARS" book launch
    In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by...
  • UCSF Alumni Author Series: A Conversation with Rupa Marya, MD
    UCSF Alumni Author Series: A Conversation with Rupa Marya, MD
    The pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma....
  • Dr. Rupa Marya on Deep Medicine & How Capitalism Primes Us for Sickness
    Dr. Rupa Marya on Deep Medicine & How Capitalism Primes Us for Sickness
    As much of the world struggles to cope with the pandemic and its impacts, we speak with Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, co-authors of the new book,...
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Rupa Marya Books

  • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
    Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

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