Dan
Werb
Dan Werb is a writer and social epidemiologist. He is the author of City of Omens, which was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award. In 2022, he won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for The Invisible Siege. Werb’s writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, TIME, and The Globe and Mail. He currently holds a dual appointment as assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation and in the Division of Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego. He lives in Toronto.
Award History
2022 Winner
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfictionfor The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
Jury Citation
“The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most disruptive event in world history since the Second World War. More than one million people have died, the global economy has been shaken, anti-science populist extremism has become a potent force, and other issues like climate change have been overshadowed by the debate over public health measures. Dan Werb tells us how we got here through an authoritative, scientific explanation of coronaviruses. The Invisible Siege is a scientific detective story that leaves the reader frightened that the villain is still on the loose, and maybe in the house.”
