David Waltner-Toews's All Purpose EcoHealth, Teaching, Writing page |
A site devoted to promoting individual, community, multi-species community and ecosystemic understanding, mutually enhancing rights, responsibilities and good times through research, teaching and learning together. |
David Waltner-Toews is an epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses (diseases other animals share with people) and ecosystem health. A Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, he is the founding president and CEO of Veterinarians without Borders/ Vétérinaires sans Frontières – Canada (www.vwb-vsf.ca), as well as the founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (www.nesh.ca). He has worked in many countries, including Cambodia, Canada, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala, and Peru. Besides being an author on about 90 peer-reviewed scholarly papers, he has published half a dozen books of poetry, a collection of poems and recipes, an award-winning collection of short stories, and four books of non-fiction. He is Art & Culture Editor, for the international scholarly journal, EcoHealth, www.ecohealth.net, the official journal of the International Society for Ecology and Health.
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| Dr. Waltner-Toews may be emailed at dwaltner @ uoguelph.ca |
| All rights reserved. (1998) Please direct inquiries regarding this website to David Waltner-Toews at the above email address. Last Updated: December 12, 2006 |