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Environmental Philosopher
Political Theorist
Public Health Scientist
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An environmental philosopher and public health scientist mobilizing these 21th century frameworks for research, teaching, and human transformation.
As our societies reprioritize ecology and biology as master sciences in the great transition upon us, I see science, public health, and philosophy working synergistically. I perform experiments, reflect on the history of culture and concepts, and piece together documentary evidence from the archives of the anthropocene to inform and assess policy, applying systems thinking to bio-ethical cases.
This engaged methodology maps multi-level patterns in the social and environmental determinants of health together with philosophical concerns about the utility of our utilities, aiming to provide direction for targeted interventions leveraging ethically- and science-based social and institutional harmonization.
Yogi is principal of Feral Ecologies Lab, a think and action-tank bringing complexity into policy for the sake of sustainability.
University of Kiel, Germany
I hold graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and UCLA, and bachelors degrees from UC Berkeley.
Recent Blog
Pharmaceuticalization as the Tobacco Industry’s Endgame
A new article I wrote with colleagues at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has just been published in BMJ Global Health. It investigates the multi-decade plan of various tobacco...
The first modern ‘War on’ was a War on Smog funded by the fossil fuel industry
A new exposé by Rebecca John at DeSmog Blog shows that as early as 1953 industry was up to capturing popular outrage and dishing out placation. To mollify disgust of Angelinos at the mounting smog in Los Angeles, industrialists got ahead of the public action curve to...
Students are not Customers
There is a difference between a student and a customer. Yet universities, driven by profit motives, and doubting their own values, often treat students as customers. This comes with "the customer is always right" fallacy, that actually precludes and prevents...