What is David Waltner-Toews?
{{Orphan|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = David Waltner-Toews | image = DavidWalterToews.jpg }} '''David Waltner-Toews''' (born 1948) is a veterinarian and a specialist in the epidemiology from [[Canada]]. He is also an [[essayist]], fiction [[writer]] and [[poet]]. == Career == He is most famous for his work on animal and human [[infectious]] [[diseases]]. He helped in the development of eco-health teaching and training manuals for [[North America]], [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. === Books === David Waltner also has published some of his books, such as ‘Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: a practical approach”,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ecosystem-approach/9780231132510|title=The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability|last1=Waltner-Toews|first1=David|last2=Kay|first2=James J.|last3=Lister|first3=Nina-Marie E.|date=August 2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-50720-2}}</ref> “One Foot in Heaven”, “Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick”, “Good Housekeeping” and others.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/life-sciences/ecology-and-conservation/ecosystem-sustainability-and-health-practical-approach?format=PB&isbn=9780521531856 | title=Ecosystem Sustainability and Health &#124; Ecology and conservation }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://greystonebooks.com/collections/david-waltner-toews | title=David Waltner-Toews }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ecwpress.com/products/eat-the-beetles | title=Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects }}</ref> In 2006, he became a winner of Best Regional Fiction and took the independent Publisher Book Awards, for One Foot in Heaven. In 2007 he became the finalist of the Canadian Science Writers' Association Book Award, for Chickens Fight Back. In 2014, he took a silver medal during the Independent Publisher Book Awards.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.independentpublis