Clara Juando-Prats, PhD, is a critical health scholar, an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the Lakehead University, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, an appointed Scientist at the St. Michael’s Hospital at Unity Health Toronto., and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Juando-Prats holds a PhD in Nursing from the Bloomberg School of Nursing – University of Toronto, a MSc in Nursing from the University of Edinburgh (UK), a Master in Health Administration from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and a BScN from the St. Pau School of Nursing at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She works to develop and implement methodologies at the intersection of participatory decolonizing approaches, creativity, and relational and more-than-human theory to improve the health and well-being of youth and children in Northwestern Ontario and globally. Her research focuses on co-creating research with the community while centering the relations between nature and humans, and using art as a research practice. She is currently studying how the relations between humans and the natural environment (plants, trees, animals, water, and more) affect the conceptualization of risk of related infectious diseases such as H5N1 bird flu and tick-borne diseases. Dr. Juando-Prats teaches and mentors graduate and undergraduate students with a land-based approach and through relational and creative pedagogies.