Dan Werb
Canadian epidemiologist and former musician
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Dan Werb is a Canadian epidemiologist and former musician.[1]
Musical career
As a musician he is best known for his work with the dance-punk band Woodhands,[2] and his collaboration with Maylee Todd in the project Ark Analog.[3] In 2011 he also participated in the National Parks Project, collaborating with musicians Sebastien Grainger and Jennifer Castle and filmmaker Catherine Martin to produce and score a short documentary film about Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in Quebec.[4]
Scientific research
As an epidemiologist, he has been associated with the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy and the UC San Diego School of Medicine.[1] In 2015, he received a research grant for work in HIV/AIDS and drug addiction prevention.[1]
In 2019, he published the book City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands, an examination of the complex factors threatening the safety of poor women in the Tijuana area of Mexico.[5] The book was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.[6]
His 2022 book, The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure, was the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[7]
His 2026 book Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World is based on three years of research into wild animals in human communities, otherwise known as synanthropes.[8]
