Amber Abrams Editor

Amber Abrams is Senior Research Officer at the Future Water research institute, at the University of Cape Town. Abrams has over 25 years of experience working in academia, for government and the private sector in the fields of public health, research science at the intersection of humans and environment, and in social sciences and social engagement translating research science for publics.

Victoria Bates is Associate Professor at the University of Bristol. She has led or collaborated on several health-and-environment projects, including the ‘MedEnv’ network and the project ‘A Sense of Place: Exploring nature and wellbeing through the non-visual senses’. She had a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Rethinking the NHS Hospital’.

Rocío Gomez is Associate Professor and Greer Chair of Latin American History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first book, Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) received the Melville Prize for Best Book in Latin American Environmental History from CLAH.