Physician, and professor at Argentine state-owned universities.

From a very young age, he’s been committed to the construction of a fairer, more caring, more democratic and healthier society; and he understood how unfeasible that was in unhealthy and depleted territories. Convinced that it was essential to walk this path with others, he’s been an activist in more comprehensive and collective spaces since his teenage years.

As a student, he created the subject “Socio-Environmental Health” and, as a professor, an institute with the same name. He promoted and implemented the evaluation scheme called “Sanitation Camp”, which enabled to identify epidemiological profiles in the agro-industrial region of Argentina and the impact of agro-industrial extractivism in health.

In his own words, one of his greatest contributions has been to bridge the gap between the University and the communities, by fostering initiatives for a decent science at the service of the peoples as well as discussions about academic and popular knowledge through horizontal logics. His aim is to support processes of empowerment and autonomy in those social movements that defend the territories to guarantee their habitability. In this regard, he founded, together with other leading figures in the continent, the Union of Scientists Committed to Society and Nature in Latin America (UCCSNAL) and a magazine, “Decent Science”; due to some difficulties and persecutions at the University where he works, he promoted the creation of the Civil Association of Socio-Environmental Health to gain autonomy when it came to territorial action