Eugenio Scannavino Neto graduated from medical school with a specialization in tropical medicine. He has worked as a rural doctor in the remote Amazon since 1984 and in 1987 he created the Health and Happiness Project, which works with more than 150 forest communities (30,000 people) in the Tapaj's river basin, in the Brazilian Amazon. The Health and Happiness Project works with programmes to support participatory and integrated processes of Global and Sustained Community Development, managed by the population itself. Eugenio is Founder of the Amazon Working Group, GTA, which congregates 650 entities of traditional peoples of the Amazon. He is also Author and Director of the Amazónia Brazil exhibition, is a Consultant in Mobilization and Community Health, and Diagnostics and Participatory Social Planning in communities in Brazil, Venezuela, India and the Philippines.