Filip Maric

Associate Professor

Filip Maric (PhD) is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway located in Tromsø (Norway), where he teaches planetary and public health, research skills, and a variety of other subjects. Filip is also Adjunct Association Professor at UiO University of Oslo (Norway) where he is developing and teaching sustainability education for university educators across all disciplines. He is the Founder and Executive Chair of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association, the first international network of over 1200 physiotherapy clinicians, students, academic and professional representatives seeking to advance environmental awareness and responsibility across physiotherapy research, practice and education (http://environmentalphysio.com/). He is also a founding member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network and chair of its German-speaking section, the founder of the UiT Environmental Humanities network, and member of UiT sustainability think-tank that was tasked to develop a sustainability strategy for the northernmost university in the world.

Filip’s interests and research span widely across planetary health, sustainability studies, and the environmental and health humanities, supporting the development of these field in general, and particularly their critical and philosophical advancement. Since early 2020, Filip leads the EPT Agenda 2023, the largest international collaboration of over 95 physiotherapy education institutions and over 35 supporting organisations seeking to implement planetary health, environmental and sustainability education into physiotherapy education around the world (https://eptagenda2023.com/).