Rob Wallace received a Ph.D. in biology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and did post-doctorate work at the University of California, Irvine, with Walter Fitch, a founder of molecular phylogeny. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is both a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota and a deli clerk at a local sandwich shop.
"The popular narrative of deadly viruses emerging from wild animal
reservoirs clearly appeals to humankind's deeply rooted fascination
with wildlife and its dangers. But isn't such a focus on the
zoonotic origin of emerging infectious diseases distracting
attention from the more important social, economic, and cultural
forces operating at different spatial and temporal scales and
contributing to the chain of causality leading to epidemics?
In his book, [...] evolutionary ecologist Rob Wallace calls on
virology, phylogeography, political ecology, mathematical
modelling, and economics to tackle those questions by taking us on
a rich and fascinating journey through the multiple layers of
causality in the emergence of disease."--Marius Gilbert "Lancet
Infectious Diseases"
"Rob Wallace's 2016 book, Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on
Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science in many
ways should have served as a forewarning for the current
coronavirus outbreak."--Sam Belton "Socialist Party"
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