Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Hendlin earned a PhD in philosophy at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany in 2015, graduating magna cum laude. Hendlin received an MA in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2010, a MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics, England in 2005, and BAs in rhetoric and political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Hendlin held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Vienna and the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin was designated a Brocher Foundation Fellow in 2020. 

Currently, Hendlin is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and core faculty in the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, and recently was a Research Associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, United States. Hendlin has published in journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Ethics, Ambio, and Environmental Philosophy. Current research focuses on the monographs Industrial Epidemics: Chronic Disease and the Corporate Determinants of Health (forthcoming) and Interspecies Politics: Valuing Difference in the Biotic Community (forthcoming). Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects address major questions in philosophy of biology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. 

Dr. Hendlin is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics (Springer Nature).