Phoenix Zones Initiative 2022 Annual Report
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<strong>2022</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
2<br />
LETTER FROM<br />
THE PRESIDENT<br />
3<br />
MISSION<br />
7<br />
HEALTH THROUGH JUSTICE<br />
8<br />
PROGRESS THROUGH ETHICS<br />
4<br />
IMPACT<br />
9<br />
FINANCIALS<br />
5<br />
A YEAR IN FOCUS<br />
10<br />
A LOOK AHEAD
Dear Friends,<br />
What a year! This moment in time has proven how much each person<br />
can make a difference. In <strong>2022</strong>, our supporters, team, and partners<br />
have given us the momentum and insight needed to steadfastly<br />
advance our work on behalf of people, animals, and the planet.<br />
Dr. Nik Kulkarni and I co-founded <strong>Phoenix</strong> <strong>Zones</strong> <strong>Initiative</strong> (PZI) after<br />
working around the globe and witnessing how certain policies and<br />
industries have driven the exploitation of vulnerable human and<br />
nonhuman populations, as well as climate change, hunger, chronic<br />
diseases, emerging infectious diseases, poverty, forced migration,<br />
and conflict. These threats increasingly endanger human and<br />
nonhuman beings.<br />
We also witnessed the power of resilience—how people and animals<br />
can heal in healthy environments. I wrote about this phenomenon in<br />
<strong>Phoenix</strong> <strong>Zones</strong>: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives, a book<br />
named after places where individuals and communities can rise and<br />
thrive—like the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes.<br />
With the help of key partners, we launched PZI in 2019 to advance the<br />
interdependent rights, health, and wellbeing of humans, other<br />
animals, and the planet, and to fuel the creation of more <strong>Phoenix</strong><br />
<strong>Zones</strong>.<br />
With the extraordinary generosity of our donors, PZI has continued<br />
to leverage medical and public health expertise to solve problems for<br />
people, animals, and the planet. In <strong>2022</strong>, from Washington, DC, to the<br />
United Nations, PZI worked to advance social, economic, and<br />
environmental policies to uplift the most vulnerable.<br />
Our work focused on preventing the next pandemic; creating a<br />
healthier and more just food system; transforming medical research<br />
so that it protects and benefits people and animals; and inspiring<br />
sustainable development and public health interventions that<br />
recognize the interdependent needs of people, animals, and the<br />
planet.<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH<br />
President<br />
Nik Kulkarni, MD<br />
Vice President<br />
Kavita Rajasekhar, MD, MPH<br />
Secretary<br />
Sonia Silva, MPA<br />
Treasurer<br />
John Gluck, PhD<br />
“Both Hope and Nik bring tremendous<br />
scholarship, wisdom, and compassion to<br />
PZI. . . . In exposing the root causes of<br />
different forms of violence and oppression,<br />
PZI identifies the systemic changes necessary<br />
to improve the lives of humans, animals, and<br />
the planet. And this isn’t just theory. Over the<br />
relatively short period that PZI has been<br />
around, it has accomplished SO<br />
MUCH—editing special journal editions,<br />
hosting a webinar series featuring top-notch<br />
experts, offering trainings to groups of<br />
students, providing testimony to the World<br />
Health Organization, working on policy<br />
initiatives, and so much more. And through<br />
all of this, they have built a community of<br />
brilliant and caring individuals who will<br />
surely make ours a kinder, more just world.”<br />
~Dr. Alka Chandna<br />
We are truly grateful to everyone who has strengthened our efforts<br />
to provide global leadership; education and outreach to<br />
professionals, students, and advocates across six continents; and<br />
expert guidance and advocacy in international, national, and local<br />
forums. Your support makes local and global innovation—and<br />
progress—a reality.<br />
As we look ahead, we encourage you to invest in a world of <strong>Phoenix</strong><br />
<strong>Zones</strong>.<br />
Thank you so much for standing with PZI, and we look forward to<br />
partnering with you in the years to come.<br />
With appreciation,<br />
Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH<br />
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OUR MISSION<br />
Led by physicians and an interdisciplinary team, <strong>Phoenix</strong> <strong>Zones</strong> <strong>Initiative</strong><br />
(PZI) advances the interdependent rights, health, and wellbeing of people,<br />
animals, and the planet through education, research, and advocacy.<br />
OUR VISION<br />
We envision a world that protects the most vulnerable and that enables<br />
people, animals, and the planet to thrive.<br />
OUR IMPACT<br />
We ground our work in a Just One Health approach, placing justice,<br />
prevention, and the links between people, animals, and the planet at the<br />
heart of policy, research, and practice. We envision that policies and<br />
practices can become more socially and ecologically just, and that they can<br />
uplift the most vulnerable.<br />
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PZI’s IMPACT<br />
across seven continents<br />
Influenced changes in<br />
international and<br />
national policy.<br />
Helped teach the next<br />
generation and today’s<br />
leaders to be more<br />
effective advocates.<br />
Brought world-renowned<br />
leaders and experts to the<br />
conversation.<br />
Appeared on podcasts with<br />
a combined estimated reach<br />
of 957,602 followers.<br />
Published academic papers<br />
and editorials in international<br />
journals and magazines with<br />
a combined estimated reach<br />
of more than 53 million.<br />
Partnered with over 150<br />
organizations worldwide<br />
through coalitions and<br />
alliances.<br />
Served as a voice for<br />
people, animals, and the<br />
planet in international<br />
forums.<br />
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4
A YEAR<br />
IN FOCUS<br />
Advanced our initiative to transform medical<br />
research by hosting a simulcast expert panel<br />
that drew more than 500 registrants and a<br />
message from Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE,<br />
Messenger of Peace.<br />
As an accredited organization of the UN<br />
Environment Program, worked with coalitions<br />
to advance an international pandemic<br />
prevention treaty and ethical, sustainable<br />
development policies that benefit people and<br />
animals.<br />
Published our international coalition’s<br />
paper on why a US high-level office for<br />
children is critical for children’s rights,<br />
health, and wellbeing, while supporting<br />
the Children's Act for Responsible<br />
Employment and Farm Safety (CARE Act).<br />
Pushed for a prevention- and<br />
justice-centered (Just One Health)<br />
approach to the One Health Joint Plan<br />
of Action launched by the UN<br />
Environment Program, the World<br />
Health Organization, the UN Food and<br />
Agriculture Organization, and the<br />
World Organization for Animal Health.<br />
Published an open letter to the World Health<br />
Organization, signed by a community of<br />
medical and public health experts, calling for<br />
a justice-centered international pandemic<br />
prevention treaty.<br />
Provided expertise to the UN<br />
High-Level Political Forum on<br />
Sustainable Development on<br />
the need for the Sustainable<br />
Development Goals to prioritize<br />
the interdependent rights,<br />
health, and wellbeing of people,<br />
animals, and the planet.<br />
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Presented powerful support for a Just One<br />
Health approach in an international public<br />
service announcement and launched a free<br />
teaching guide on ecological justice and a<br />
right to health for undergraduate and<br />
graduate faculty and students.<br />
Mobilized supporters to urge legislators<br />
to pass the FDA Modernization Act to<br />
end the Depression-level requirement<br />
for drug developers to use animal<br />
testing instead of more ethical and<br />
effective research methods.<br />
Provided public education and professional<br />
trainings on how we can advance<br />
evidence-based, modern, ethical research<br />
founded on primary prevention, justice, and<br />
the interdependent connections between the<br />
treatment of people and animals.<br />
Offered a training program on how<br />
public policies, institutions, and practices<br />
could become more socially,<br />
environmentally, and economically just,<br />
and promote optimal health and<br />
wellbeing for people, animals, and the<br />
planet.<br />
Addressed UN member states on the nexus<br />
between sustainable development, human<br />
rights, and animal protection.<br />
Celebrated the victory of helping the FDA<br />
Modernization Act pass the US House and<br />
Senate to make its way to President Biden’s<br />
desk.<br />
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ADVANCING HEALTH THROUGH JUSTICE<br />
Throughout the year, PZI worked to ensure that<br />
international, national, and local policies abide<br />
by principles that advance the right to health<br />
and protect people, animals, and the<br />
environment from exploitation—especially in<br />
publicly funded activities such as food policy,<br />
medical research, public health priorities, and<br />
international development.<br />
Working in coalition with international<br />
partners, PZI fought to influence change—from<br />
our groundbreaking expert panel in May and<br />
our training program in November, to key<br />
publications and speaking engagements<br />
throughout the year outlining why and how we<br />
need to center ecological justice and the right<br />
to health, to our work with UN bodies to<br />
influence international policy such as the<br />
sound implementation of the Sustainable<br />
Development Goals and the global adoption of<br />
a pandemic prevention treaty.<br />
In testimony to UN bodies and member<br />
states, PZI continued to highlight the need to<br />
stop ecosystem degradation, habitat loss and<br />
fragmentation, biodiversity loss,<br />
encroachment into wildlife habitats, the<br />
commercial trade in wild animals, and<br />
intensive animal farming—all of which<br />
increase the risk of emerging infectious<br />
disease outbreaks and harm human and<br />
animal health in other ways.<br />
PZI also provided resources to inform faculty,<br />
students, and the public, and to enable them<br />
to better advocate for change. And PZI<br />
continued to engage with medical, public<br />
health, and legal professionals via invited<br />
talks to encourage them to show leadership<br />
using a Just One Health approach.<br />
PZI’s open letter from the medical and public<br />
health community to the World Health<br />
Organization on the need for a justice-centered<br />
pandemic prevention treaty garnered the<br />
support of more than 100 leaders from some<br />
of the largest and most influential public health<br />
organizations. PZI’s president, Dr. Hope<br />
Ferdowsian, highlighted the letter in testimony<br />
to the World Health Organization. PZI also<br />
welcomed a conceptual zero draft of a legally<br />
binding pandemic prevention instrument that<br />
reflected many of the elements PZI has<br />
advanced. And we continue to fight for an even<br />
better treaty.<br />
It will soon be a year since I became aware of<br />
<strong>Phoenix</strong> <strong>Zones</strong> <strong>Initiative</strong> (PZI) and in that time,<br />
they've grown to become my favorite organization …<br />
Protecting the vulnerable and interdependency are<br />
their clarion calls. There have been two four-week<br />
seminars regarding this [issue]; each was attended<br />
by people actively working in this field; I felt<br />
welcomed at these forums and thus experienced PZI<br />
walking the Just One Health talk with its emphasis<br />
on inclusivity, rights, and justice.<br />
~ Risa Mandell<br />
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MAKING PROGRESS THROUGH ETHICS AND SCIENCE<br />
PZI began the year by hosting a revolutionary<br />
expert panel in January, followed by key<br />
publications throughout the year outlining why<br />
and how we need to shift to a more ethical,<br />
modern research system.<br />
PZI mobilized the public to urge members of<br />
Congress to support the FDA Modernization Act<br />
to end Depression-era animal testing<br />
requirements for drug developers. PZI also<br />
offered innovative training and education<br />
programs that enabled professionals and<br />
advocates to take meaningful action.<br />
PZI’s president, Dr. Hope Ferdowsian,<br />
submitted Congressional testimony on the<br />
importance of encouraging scientific and<br />
ethical innovation to improve the lives of<br />
patients and to save animals from unethical<br />
and ineffective experiments. She and other<br />
leaders in medicine, public health, ethics, and<br />
the sciences called upon the president of the<br />
National Academy of Sciences to redirect a<br />
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,<br />
and Medicine committee on primate research<br />
to its original mandate from Congress, its<br />
obligations to the public, and its promise of<br />
independent objectivity.<br />
Public education campaigns helped mobilize a<br />
groundswell of support for key legislation and<br />
funding shifts, while PZI continued to build a<br />
network of interdisciplinary experts in<br />
medicine, the sciences, law, and other fields to<br />
create a roadmap toward<br />
• a more ethical and just research<br />
paradigm;<br />
• improved standards in academic<br />
research and publication standards;<br />
• more innovative and ethical education,<br />
training, and career pathways and<br />
pipelines; and<br />
• more modernization and innovation<br />
that protect and benefit people and<br />
animals.<br />
By the end of the year, the FDA Modernization<br />
Act passed the US House and Senate to make<br />
its way to President Biden’s desk to be signed<br />
into law.<br />
The progress made in <strong>2022</strong> sets the stage for<br />
more meaningful advancements in 2023 and<br />
the years to come.<br />
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FINANCIALS<br />
Because of partners like you, PZI received critical support in 2020, 2021, and <strong>2022</strong> as part of a growing call for<br />
transformational change.<br />
In <strong>2022</strong>, PZI made strategic investments and changes to remain resilient and to ensure long-term sustainability<br />
as public support began to fluctuate following the onset of the pandemic.<br />
Our work is supported entirely through donations. Donors like you entrust PZI with your<br />
hard-earned dollars, and we promise to use every dollar to create the greatest impact possible.<br />
Thank you to the Carroll Petrie Foundation, the William and Charlotte Parks Foundation, the Lush Charity Pot,<br />
and to individuals like you for your generous support.<br />
2020<br />
2021<br />
<strong>2022</strong><br />
REVENUE<br />
Individual donations<br />
Foundation support<br />
Total Revenue<br />
$256,439<br />
$256,439<br />
$222,860<br />
$29,250<br />
$252,110<br />
$115,891<br />
$124,200<br />
$240,091<br />
EXPENSES<br />
Programs<br />
Fundraising<br />
General operation<br />
Total Expenses<br />
$129,558<br />
$1,499<br />
$3,478<br />
$134,535<br />
$209,370<br />
$20,502<br />
$8,846<br />
$238,718<br />
$152,514<br />
$15,532<br />
$6,083<br />
$174,129<br />
NET ASSETS<br />
$133,717<br />
$147,109<br />
$213,071<br />
“I’m proud to support PZI because you have guts, wisdom, and a plan to effect positive<br />
change in how we treat each other, all animals, and our beautiful planet so that we can<br />
all thrive together." ~ Sarah Speare<br />
You can show your continued solidarity with our movement by exploring all the ways to give to PZI,<br />
including:<br />
• Online donations through our website<br />
• A check mailed to <strong>Phoenix</strong> <strong>Zones</strong> <strong>Initiative</strong>, 13170-B Central Avenue SE, PMB 385,<br />
Albuquerque, NM 87123-5588<br />
• Donor Advised Fund (DAF) grants initiated by contacting your grant administrator<br />
• Memorial or Tribute gifts<br />
• Legacy Gifts by naming PZI as a beneficiary of your estate plan<br />
To learn more, visit: https://phoenixzonesinitiative.org/donate<br />
Every donation makes a difference.<br />
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A LOOK AHEAD<br />
At PZI, we ground all our work in a Just One Health approach. Just One Health places justice, primary<br />
prevention, and the connections between people, animals, and the planet at the heart of global and<br />
local policy, research, and practice. Just One Health builds on a One Health framework and recognizes<br />
that humans and other animals have rights, including rights to self-determination, and rights against<br />
abuse and exploitation.<br />
If businesses and governments, and all our systems—health, education, economic, legal, political, and<br />
more—used a Just One Health framework as the foundation for all policies and practices, we could<br />
mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis, prevent future pandemics, and center the needs of the most<br />
vulnerable so that everyone has the opportunity to thrive.<br />
That’s why, in the years to come, we will continue to advocate for national and international policies,<br />
funding mechanisms, and economic frameworks that advance the right to health and justice for<br />
people and animals. Through an emphasis on primary prevention, we will continue to advocate for<br />
medical, public health, and research frameworks that address structural inequities and factors that<br />
impact health and wellbeing.<br />
"PZI leverages science, data, and facts to educate and advocate for a One Health approach. It has an<br />
innovative pipeline of projects that can help us build social, governmental, and economic systems rooted<br />
in a One Health approach. I strongly support PZI." ~ Nilang Gor<br />
WHY WE FOCUS ON THE MOST VULNERABLE<br />
PZI has continued to lead the way to create a better tomorrow. Our vision is grounded in<br />
meeting the needs of the most vulnerable human and nonhuman individuals, populations,<br />
and communities.<br />
As part of a commitment to a Just One Health approach, many of our efforts focus on children<br />
and animals, who belong to two of the most vulnerable groups in the world. A failure to<br />
adequately recognize their needs and rights in international frameworks, national and local<br />
policies, and everyday practice leads to widespread abuse and exploitation.<br />
Since the most vulnerable are usually the first and last to be exploited, they are where we place<br />
our focus—while also recognizing their agency. If the most vulnerable thrive, the rest of us can<br />
too.<br />
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