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The Ecological Context: Lecturer Biographies

How Systems Work
Richard Levins PhD, Harvard School of Public Health

Richard Levins is an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist. He researches in evolutionary, public health, agricultural ecology, philosophy of science and mathematical biology with a special interest in the understanding of complexity and is a participant/observer in the transformation of Cuban agriculture toward an ecological pathway. At HSPH he teaches Human Ecology in the fall and The Ecology of Health in Development in the spring, in the Department of Population and International Health.

Symptoms of Distress: Emerging Diseases
Mary E. Wilson MD, Harvard Medical School

 

Mary E. Wilson, M.D. (University of Wisconsin Medical School; Residency, internal medicine and fellowship, infectious diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston; Chief of Infectious Diseases, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, for >20 years; director of Travel Resource Center, 1996-2002; GeoSentinel site director, 1997-2002) is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. She is a fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America and active in the International Society of Travel Medicine. Dr. Wilson’s main academic interests include tuberculosis, ecology of infections and emergence of new infections, travel medicine, and vaccines. She has worked at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti, served on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the CDC, and been a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. She has published widely, serves on several editorial boards, and is author of the book, A WorldGuide to Infections: Diseases, Distribution, Diagnosis, Oxford University Press. She is the senior editor, with Richard Levins and Andrew Spielman, of Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases (New York Academy of Sciences, 1994).