Lucia Vitale 

In rural Haiti, many households continue to use wood-burning stoves to prepare daily meals. While wood is often the most reliable way for many communities to cook food, it also poses significant risks to human health and to the environment. In this photo, Marie prepares a mid- morning meal of coffee, boiled yucca, and fried eggs for her family. In mountainous areas that receive rain, it is common for families to build indoor stoves. While this makes meal preparation easier during the rainy season, it also increases how much smoke the individual preparing food inhales. If we are to envision a world in which each individual can live a healthy life, preventing disease and illness, or “upstream solutions,” are crucial to realizing the goal of “Health for All”.