Public Health Practitioner, Brain Cancer Survivor, Advocate

Jeremy Pivor is a public health practitioner, writer and advocate living with a recurrent brain tumor, first diagnosed at age twelve. His work connects the health of people to the health of the planet, spanning ocean conservation, climate change and health equity.
He has written and spoken about navigating young adulthood with a chronic, life-threatening illness, including vision loss and cognitive change, and about the particular isolation of adolescent and young adult cancer. He holds a master's in public health from Harvard and has worked on climate and health initiatives connecting environmental and human wellbeing.