David Waltner-Toews

David Waltner-Toews (born 1948) is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity.

David Waltner-Toews, November 2016

Profile

A University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph,[1] he is the founding president of Veterinarians without Borders/ Vétérinaires sans Frontières - Canada,[2] founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health.,[3] and one of the founding members of the Community of Practice for Ecosystem Approaches to Health – Canada.[4]

Besides about 100 peer-reviewed scholarly papers and a textbook (Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a practical approach, Cambridge, 2004), he has published half a dozen books of poetry, a collection of poems and recipes, an award-winning collection of short stories (One Foot in Heaven), a murder mystery (Fear of Landing) and a book about the natural history of diseases people get from animals (The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans). In 2011 he collaborated with artist Diane Maclean on her exhibition Bird at Killhope North of England Lead Mining Museum, contributing a new poem, The Love Song of the Javanese Singing Cock[5]

Work

Waltner-Toews is best known for his initiatives to integrate human, animal, and ecosystem health in research, practice and teaching.[6][7][8] This work, bridging natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences, has drawn considerably on the ideas of post-normal science, as developed by Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz. He has been instrumental in the development of ecohealth teaching and training manuals for North America and Europe as well as Asia .

Books
  • The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty and Managing for Sustainability (with James Kay and Nina-Marie Lister)[9]
  • Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a practical approach[10]
  • Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick[11]
  • The Earth is One Body
  • Good Housekeeping
  • The Fat Lady Struck Dumb[12]
  • One Foot in Heaven
  • Fear of Landing[13]
  • The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans[14]
  • One Animal Among Many: Gaia, Goats and Garlic
  • The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society[15]
  • Eat the Beetles! An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects[16]

Awards
  • 2006 Winner, Best Regional Fiction – Canada West, Independent Publisher Book Awards, for One Foot in Heaven
  • 2007 Finalist, Canadian Science Writers' Association Book Award, for Chickens Fight Back
  • 2014 Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Eco-Health[17]
  • 2014 Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards (Environment/ ecology/ nature)[18]
  • 2014 Finalist, Canadian Science Writers' Book Award for The Origin of Feces

References
  1. https://ovc.uoguelph.ca/population-medicine/faculty/David-Waltner-Toews
  2. https://www.vetswithoutborders.ca/who-we-are/founders-story
  3. http://www.nesh.ca/node/11
  4. http://www.copeh-canada.org/
  5. England's highest gallery stages an ace show - the Guardian
  6. Waltner-Toews, D. and J. Kay. The Evolution of an Ecosystem Approach: the Diamond Schematic and an Adaptive Methodology for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health. Ecology and Society 10 (1): 38, 2005.
  7. [Waltner-Toews, D., Neudeorffer, C., Joshi, D.D., Tamang, M.S. Agro-urban ecosystem health assessment in Kathmandu, Nepal: epidemiology, systems, narratives. Ecohealth. 2: 1-11, 2005.]
  8. [Gitau, T., Gitau, M., Waltner-Toews, D. Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosytems. Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, 2008.]
  9. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ecosystem-approach/9780231132510
  10. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/ecology-and-conservation/ecosystem-sustainability-and-health-practical-approach?format=PB&isbn=9780521531856
  11. https://greystonebooks.com/collections/david-waltner-toews
  12. http://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/david-waltner-toews/
  13. https://poisonedpenpress.com/books/fear-of-landing/
  14. https://greystonebooks.com/collections/david-waltner-toews
  15. http://ecwpress.com/products/origin-of-feces
  16. https://ecwpress.com/products/eat-the-beetles
  17. https://ecohealth.net/ecohealth-2/awards/iaeh-award-recipients/#Outstanding-Contributions
  18. http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1791
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