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Dr. Silvia Cruz
Silvia Cruz, Ph.D., is an international expert on the neurobiology of addiction who was a 1996-1997 NIDA INVEST Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with Robert Balster, Ph.D. In 2010, she spent a year as an invited researcher at Mexico’s
Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz National Institute of Psychiatry
, where she focused on epidemiology, anthropology, and sociology. Dr. Cruz is currently a full professor at Mexico’s Center of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav), where she previously served as graduate program coordinator and chair of the Department of Pharmacobiology. This interview is based on her webinar for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Neuroscience Interest Group series, “In Love with Addiction Neuroscience.”
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Meet Seven Women Saving the Planet
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Meet seven women saving the planet
UNEP / 05 Mar 2021
Women are playing a lead role in tackling some of the planet’s biggest environmental threats, from climate change to species loss, to pollution. International Women’s Day, which falls on 8 March, provides an opportunity to reflect on women’s contributions as caretakers of people and nature, defending environmental and human rights and representing the interests of those whose voices may otherwise go unheard.
Meet seven extraordinary women who are using their powers to save the planet.
Mindy Lubber poses for a photo. Photo: UNEP
Mindy Lubber is CEO and President of Ceres, a non-profit organization that uses hard data to show investors and corporations that clean technologies, like solar power, wind energy and water recycling, are not only environmentally and socially responsible, they’re also good business.