Nat Quansah

Nat Quansah
Nat Quansah
Nationality	Ghanaian
Education	University of London, Goldsmiths College University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Occupation	Botanist
Awards	Goldman Environmental Prize (2000)

Nat Quansah is a botanist from Ghana, and earned a doctorate in philosophy in pteridology from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He received a master's degree in botany at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has taught courses on ethnobotany at the University of Antananarivo. Since 2008 he has served as the academic director for the Madagascar: Traditional Medicine and healthcare Systems summer program. From 2013 to 2014, he served as academic director for the School for International Training (SIT) program Tanzania: Zanzibar — Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management.

He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000, for his works on health care, cultural tradition and forest conservation, based in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar.^[1] He founded a healthcare clinic in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar in 1994 that developed and implemented the Integrated Health Care and Conservation Program.^[2] The program integrates the diverse health, economic, biological, cultural backgrounds of local people to simultaneously address healthcare and conservation needs. The work of the clinic has been done in cooperation with the World Wide Fund for Nature and treated thousands of patients-many with native and threatened medicinal plants.^[3]

References[]

^ "Islands and Island Nations 2000. Nat Quansah. Madagascar, Sustainable development". Goldman Environmental Prize. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
^ Quansah, Nat (2005-12-31). "Integrated Health Care System: Meeting Global Health Care Needs in the 21st Century". Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 3: 067. doi:10.17348/era.3.0.67-72. ISSN 1547-3465.
^ "Nat Quansah". Goldman Environmental Foundation. Retrieved 2021-04-21.

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[1] "Islands and Island Nations 2000. Nat Quansah. Madagascar, Sustainable development". Goldman Environmental Prize. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 18 November 2010.

[2] Quansah, Nat (2005-12-31). "Integrated Health Care System: Meeting Global Health Care Needs in the 21st Century". Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 3: 067. doi:10.17348/era.3.0.67-72. ISSN 1547-3465.

[3] "Nat Quansah". Goldman Environmental Foundation. Retrieved 2021-04-21.

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