TRIBES

Over the years Dr Chohan has worked with a number of indigenous communities and tribes living in the world’s most hostile regions as well as learning from their traditional healers and practitioners of Folk Medicine. This has included experiences with indigenous communities in the Arctic regions, the Sherpas of Everest, the San Bushman, the mountainous tribes of the Indian Himalaya’s as well as the traditional Leaf Doctors of Haiti and practitioners of Traditional Medicine in India and Africa. 

Man remains the only animal to have successfully conquered all types of natural environments from deserts to the Arctic, from the jungles to the peaks of the Himalayas but the final environment he created – the Urban Jungle appears to have caused the most illness of all, with the skyrocketing rates of disease including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, nutritional problems as well as mental health conditions. The purpose of this research was to identify how tribal communities have both physically and psychologically survived and thrived in the world's toughest places and determine what we could learn from their survival instincts as well as their traditional healing practices honed over thousands of years in the world's most unforgiving environments. 

DISASTER

Dr Chohan is a passionate advocate for delivering humanitarian aid to isolated, traumatized and socially disadvantaged communities globally, especially in regions affected by conflict or catastrophe. He originally started his humanitarian aid work in 2004, by delivering medical care to victims of leprosy and Polio in isolated colonies in the Indian state of Punjab. Since then he has undertaken further international deployments across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and has worked in some of the world’s most hostile regions. His experience includes everything from leading large 60 strong medical teams into earthquake zones to tackling epidemics, from investigating war crimes in East Kivus DRC to providing medical care to victims of the Rwandan genocide.