Joel Salinas, MD, MBA, MSC

About Me When I was in college, I traveled to the Amazon rain forest in Brazil to study the mercury contamination of a local watershed. While I was there, I asked villagers who were affected to share their stories, and I learned something that has stuck with me since. Decades before, the local people were told by public health officials not to drink the water or eat the fish or else they would be poisoned. But most of the villagers dismissed these warnings—until one came from their village’s sha