Dan Werb

Dan Werb, PhD, is a science writer and epidemiologist. He is an assistant professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego and at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. For his research, he has received the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse's Avenir Award, a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, and other honors. His journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Believer, Huffington Post, and The Walrus, where his feature "The Fix" on new tactics for treating injectable drug abuse won a Canadian National Magazine Award. He lives in Toronto and La Jolla.