CV of Dr. David Waltner-Toews
SELECTED PAPERS
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How the Light Gets In
BOOKS  - FICTION! POETRY! SCIENCE!

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.