Dan Werb is a

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epidemiologist and former musician.Alex Hudson
"Dan Werb of Woodhands Awarded $1.5 Million Grant for HIV/AIDS Research"
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'', July 8, 2015.

Musical career

As a musician he is best known for his musical work with the

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band Woodhands, and his collaboration with Maylee Todd in the project Ark Analog. In 2011 he also participated in the

National Parks Project The National Parks Project is a Canadian music and film project. Released in 2011 to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Parks of Canada system,Sebastien Grainger Sebastien Alexandre Grainger (born 11 April 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the alternative rock duo Death from Above and the singer and guitarist for his band Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains. He ...

and

Jennifer Castle Jennifer Castle is a Canadian singer-songwriter, based in Toronto, Ontario. Born in Toronto, she was raised in Mississauga and Orangeville, Ontario, Orangeville,

, and filmmaker Catherine Martin, to produce and score a short

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about Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in

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Scientific research

As an epidemiologist, he has been associated with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy and the School of Medicine at the

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. In 2015, he received a research grant for work in HIV/AIDS and drug addiction prevention. 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

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area of

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. The book was shortlisted for the

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at the 2019 Governor General's Awards. 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 The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner re ...

.Deborah Dundas
"Writers’ Trust 2022 book award winners collect $270,000 in prizes"
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'', November 2, 2022.

References

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