Culture of Peace Initiative

Dr. Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, educator and writer - uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker. Galvin holds a Sc.D. in environmental health from the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program at the Harvard School of Public Health, a M.P.H. in environmental epidemiology from Yale University, and a B.S. in aquatic biology from Brown University. Galvin has been working at the intersection of environment and health since 1998 and is a published author, recently contributing to the book Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas (2008, Elsevier). She has consulted on several media projects, including the World of Water film series at the New England Aquarium and with the Center for Health and the Global Environment to create two award winning films, Once Upon A Tide, narrated by Linda Hunt, and Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans, narrated by Meryl Streep. Galvin was selected to the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Environmental Film and Wildlife Documentaries Residency held at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), Cuba. She is the co-founder of reelblue, LLC, a media company specializing in stories about global health and the environment, and reelgreen, a venture in visual educational activism.  In late 2006 she published We, Sea, a book about the ocean's impact on the lives of Bahamian children, as told through their own photographs and in their own words. The book's companion documentary film, the award winning Free Swim, was released in 2009. Galvin is also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation and on the Board of Directors of Swim to Empower.