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Pearl has been profiled in Newsweek and authored the column “Naturally Speaking” for Discover magazine. She co-edited the Oxford University Press books Conservation Medicine and Conservation for the 21st Century, and edited the series Methods and Cases in Conservation Science for Columbia University Press. She was Associate Editor of the journal Ecohealth and served on the editorial board of Conservation magazine. Earlier in her career, Pearl was Administrator of Conservation Programs at the venerable Wildlife Conservation Society, where she developed and ran the Asia-Pacific Program, and she also worked at the World Wildlife Fund. She holds a PhD in Physical Anthropology from Yale. Pearl is now Dean and Administrative Vice President at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton, a campus where studies are organized around conservation and sustainability issues. Mary Pearl speaks on health and the environment, conservation medicine, and the links between ecosystem stress and communicable diseases. To discuss Mary Pearl as a possible speaker, please call our toll-free number, 866-658-4848, or send us an email message here.
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Newsweek credits Mary Pearl with spearheading the development of conservation medicine, the scientific exploration of the links between the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems, including the increasing risk of interspecies disease transmission. Her leadership roles include co-founding both the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, a partnership of academic organizations devoted to human and animal health, and Columbia University’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. She has served as President of the Wildlife Trust, an organization created by the late naturalist Gerald Durrell, and as a member of the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on Environmental Sustainability.
