Ojistoh Horn
About Ojistoh Horn
Ojistoh Horn is a Mohawk / Haudenosaunee woman working as a family physician and is a Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) board member drawing on both western and traditional paradigms, working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous physicians across the country, with a clear eye on the effects of the environment and pollution on health.
Environmental rights are key to good health
The link between human rights, human health and an unhealthy planet is clear to us as physicians. The federal government must also make these connections.
Hidden tailings leak reveals ongoing environmental racism in Canada
Alongside the calls from First Nations communities have been the calls from physicians. They, too, see the effects of environmental racism, including for their patients.
