Dr. Nooshin Razani is a pediatrician, researcher and passionate advocate for the healing power of nature. She is the founder and director of the Center for Nature and Heath, based at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. The Center conducts original research related to nature and health, helps health care practitioners incorporate nature into their practice, and provides clinical care in nature. Dr. Razani is an attending physician in UCSF Benioff Oakland’s Ambulatory Department and Assistant Clinical Scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI).

Dr. Razani attended medical school at University of California San Francisco, completed a pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Razani recently completed the first randomized trial of a park prescription program and has also created some of the first validated protocols for physicians and health systems to integrate nature-based interventions into their practices.