Associate Professor dr. mult. Aleksandar Racz is a physician specialized in Environmental health, as well as in the field of Forest medicine in Japan. He has completed four postgraduate doctoral studies and obtained four PhDs from four different Universities in three different countries in the fields of law and social sciences, economics, sociology and biomedical sciences (public health). He is currently engaged at both professional and academic levels in various scientific fields—within the domain of biomedicine and public health, addressing issues of sustainable development as part of global public health; within sociology, focusing on aspects of social work theory related to promoting strategies against discrimination and stigmatization of marginalized and particularly vulnerable social groups especially the implementation of the integration of Roma into society through advocating for positive discrimination in access to higher education. Additionally, he is involved in the field of environmental ethics and integrative bioethics, and more recently, he has been promoting the re-evaluation of nature and forests by integrating the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku as part of forest therapy and forest medicine, as a component of integrative public health activities aimed at improving quality of life. Throughout his academic career, he served as Dean of the College of Health Sciences in Zagreb (2013 – 2016), as well as Vice Dean for Science and Publishing for two terms (2