About Rupa
Physician • Researcher • Writer
Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, soil lover and composer. She was Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, practicing and teaching hospital medicine for 23 years.
Health, Justice & Systems Thinking
A scholar of the health impacts of colonialism on human and planetary health, Rupa founded the Deep Medicine Circle to advance the concept of Whole System Health, where healed relationships between people and the web of life confer health.
Research & Academic Work
Rupa is newly appointed at Trinity College Dublin as Adjunct Professor of Land, Food and Medicine and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Medicine. She is bringing the Farming is Medicine programme to Ireland and supporting the articulation of a Liberation Medicine.
Recognition: Received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from Listowel Food Fair and was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in 2001.
Writing & Publications
Together with co-author Raj Patel, she wrote the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
Food, Farming & Health
Rupa’s work explores how human health, food systems and planetary health are deeply interconnected, with a focus on regenerative and agroecological approaches.
See Rupa at the Festival
Join Dr. Rupa Marya at the Farming for Nature Festival and explore the connections between farming, food and human health.
