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, in 5 countries, across academia, multinationals, small businesses and non-profits in ethnomedicine and the agricultural, pharmaceutical, personal care product, 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. I have a strong ability to link seemingly disparate concepts.

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
  • Trauma-informed Ecosychology & Behaviour
• Psychological Resilience & Adaptation
  • Risk Perception & Action Inertia
• Recreation for Disaster Recovery
  • Disenfranchised Grief

Global Health Traditions

• Planetary Health
  • Ocean-Human Health Literacy
  • Human-Ocean connection
• Marine Ecopharmacovigilance
  • Medicinal & Aromatic Plant-Culture Protection

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

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“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.” ~ Sylvia Earle