Nat Quansah
{{Short description|Ghanaian botanist}}
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| education = University of London, Goldsmiths College
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
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Nat Quansah (Born on 21, September 1953) is a botanist from Ghana.
He founded a healthcare clinic in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000, for his works on health care, cultural tradition, and forest conservation.
Biography
Quansah earned a doctorate in philosophy in pteridology from the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He received a master's degree in botany at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.{{Cite web |title=Nat Quansah, PhD |url=https://www.sit.edu/sit_faculty/nat-quansah-phd/ |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=School for International Training}} He has taught courses on ethnobotany at the University of Antananarivo. Since 2008 he has served as the academic director for the Madagascar: Traditional Medicine and Healthcare Systems summer program. From 2013 to 2014, he served as academic director for the School for International Training (SIT) program Tanzania: Zanzibar — Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management.
He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000, for his works on health care, cultural tradition, and forest conservation, based in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar.{{cite web|url=http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/156|title=Islands and Island Nations 2000. Nat Quansah. Madagascar, Sustainable development|publisher=Goldman Environmental Prize|access-date=18 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123032541/http://goldmanprize.org/node/156|archive-date=23 November 2010}} He founded a healthcare clinic in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar in 1994 that developed and implemented the Integrated Health Care and Conservation Program.{{Cite journal|last=Quansah|first=Nat|date=2005-12-31|title=Integrated Health Care System: Meeting Global Health Care Needs in the 21st Century|url=http://journals.sfu.ca/era/index.php/era/article/view/54|journal=Ethnobotany Research and Applications|volume=3|pages=067|doi=10.17348/era.3.0.67-72|issn=1547-3465|doi-access=free|hdl=10125/155|hdl-access=free}} The program integrates the diverse health, economic, biological, and cultural backgrounds of local people to simultaneously address healthcare and conservation needs. The work of the clinic has been done in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature and treated thousands of patients-many with native and threatened medicinal plants.{{Cite web|title=Nat Quansah|url=https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/nat-quansah/|access-date=2021-04-21|website=Goldman Environmental Foundation|language=en-US}}
Nat Quansah reintroduced the use of native plants as medicine to thousands of Malagasy people in an Ambodisakoana clinic he opened, educating the community about the need for [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878522015000788#:~:text=Forest%20conservation%20involves%20the%20upkeep,both%20humans%20and%20the%20environment. forest conservation] in Madagascar.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-18 |title=Nat Quansah - Goldman Environmental Prize |url=https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/nat-quansah/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |language=en-US}}
Awards
2000 Goldman Prize winner
[https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/nat-quansah/]
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Category:20th-century Ghanaian botanists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Antananarivo
Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Category:Ghanaian environmentalists
Category:Ghanaian expatriates in Madagascar