Debbie Early, PhD

With a proven track record of being a team-orientated and adaptable professional, I have over 30 years international and cross-cultural experience in allied-healthcare, human-centered research, the life sciences and health tourism. I have worked across academia, multinationals, small businesses and non-profits in ethnomedicine and the agricultural, pharmaceutical, wellness and agritourism sectors. In addition, I am a widely published, non-fiction author and I have served on several international, advisory boards related to clinical research, wellness, adaptation and sustainability.

My expertise focuses on Caring for People and Places, specifically for adaptation in the Blue Tourism and Aquaculture industries within the areas of:

• Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Sense of Place Disruption
  • Ecosychology & Behaviour
• Global Health Traditions
  • Ocean-Human Health Literacy
  • Human-Ocean connection
  • Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
  • Marine Ecopharmacovigilance

I have experience working with teams across Eastern, Western and Indigenous philosophies. My international, and local, experience supports transdisciplinary leaders seeking innovative and practical approaches to future-focused co-design, and implementation, for adaptation, resilience and One Health.