From 2013 to 2014, he served as academic director for the School for International Training (SIT) program Tanzania: Zanzibar — Coastal Ecology and Natural Resource Management.
He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2000, for his works on health care, cultural tradition, and forest conservation, based in Ambodisakoana, Madagascar.
[3] The program integrates the diverse health, economic, biological, and cultural backgrounds of local people to simultaneously address healthcare and conservation needs.
The work of the clinic has been done in partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature and treated thousands of patients-many with native and threatened medicinal plants.
[4] Nat Quansah reintroduced the use of native plants as medicine to thousands of Malagasy people in an Ambodisakoana clinic he opened, educating the community about the need for forest conservation in Madagascar.