About Us
The EcoHealth student section is a voluntary group of student
coordinators working under the auspices of the International
Association for Ecology and Health (EcoHealth Association). Students
are encouraged to join via the General Student Membership. General
Student Membership is discounted, and Student Members have the same
benefits accorded to Individual (professional) Members of the EcoHealth
Association. (Documentation of student status is required).
The EcoHealth Association officially recognizes the student section as the representation of student interests. The student section operates in partnership with the Association (via a Memorandum of Understanding) to leverage student opportunities. New student members are invited but not obligated to participate in student section activities. All student members of the EcoHealth General Student Membership are eligible to become student coordinators. The student representative to the EcoHealth Board and student coordinator positions are voluntary. Nominations for these positions are taken from the Board of the EcoHealth Association and from the current coordinators of the student section.
Student section coordinators are undergraduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary students who are passionate about sustaining the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems. Current coordinators and roles are listed below (click on the links to learn more about our backgrounds). Please contact us (students@ecohealth.net) if you have questions, concerns or interest in becoming involved!
Kosta Tzoulas, Coordinator, EcoHealth Resources (i.e. updates on online resources, databases, courses etc)
Sarah Olson, Coordinator/Student Rep, EcoHealth Student Forum (i.e. website coordinator, updating)
Bob Truckner, Coordinator, EcoHealth Activities (i.e. updates on events, workshops, conferences etc)
Christine Banks, Coordinator, EcoHealth Journal Student Liaison (i.e. what's new section, secretary)
MEET THE STUDENT SECTION COORDINATORS
Konstantinos Tzoulas, PhD, BSc (Hons),
AMIEnvSc, in his Doctoral thesis, suggested a new grounded theory on
the contribution of urban biodiversity to human health and well-being.
He has studied and undertaken research at the University of Salford
since 1997. Recently, he contributed to the evaluation of the CITYgreen
software for modeling ecosystem services provided by green
infrastructure (Natural Economy Northwest Programme, 2007). He has also
esearched the role of green infrastructure in improving ecosystem
health and public health (University of Helsinki European Social
Network Fund, 2005). Recenlty, he has been an evaluator for Doctoral
and Post-Doctoral fellowships, in the area of environment and health,
for the Irish STRIVE programme (April and May 2007).
Sarah Olson is currently a Joint PhD candidate (Population Health and Environment & Resources) at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) within the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She studies land use and disease ecology, with a
focus on deforestation and malaria in the Amazon. After receiving a
BSc and BA w/ Honors from Montana State University-Bozeman, she
volunteered for Peace Corps and served as a science and math teacher in
Ghana from 2001-2003. When not at SAGE or on the computer, she is outside, trail running,
mountain biking, climbing, hiking, playing ultimate, and nordic skiing.
Christine Banks is currently a Master's student in Conservation Biology at Columbia University. She received her B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University in 2003 where she assisted in field trials in the Department of Plant Breeding, completed an internship project on invasive plant species in the Cayuga Lake Basin at Cornell Plantations, and participated in a project researching nutrient and metals standards for different compost end usages while working for the Cornell Waste Management Institute at the Cornell Center for the Environment. In her "spare" time she is a Program Officer at Wildlife Trust. Her academic interests include human influences on and obstacles to avian conservation, conservation medicine, sustainability of agricultural systems, and conservation capacity building in developing countries. Christine's less academic interests include reading, hiking, napping, and eating lots of vegetables.
The EcoHealth Association officially recognizes the student section as the representation of student interests. The student section operates in partnership with the Association (via a Memorandum of Understanding) to leverage student opportunities. New student members are invited but not obligated to participate in student section activities. All student members of the EcoHealth General Student Membership are eligible to become student coordinators. The student representative to the EcoHealth Board and student coordinator positions are voluntary. Nominations for these positions are taken from the Board of the EcoHealth Association and from the current coordinators of the student section.
Student section coordinators are undergraduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary students who are passionate about sustaining the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems. Current coordinators and roles are listed below (click on the links to learn more about our backgrounds). Please contact us (students@ecohealth.net) if you have questions, concerns or interest in becoming involved!
Kosta Tzoulas, Coordinator, EcoHealth Resources (i.e. updates on online resources, databases, courses etc)
Sarah Olson, Coordinator/Student Rep, EcoHealth Student Forum (i.e. website coordinator, updating)
Bob Truckner, Coordinator, EcoHealth Activities (i.e. updates on events, workshops, conferences etc)
Christine Banks, Coordinator, EcoHealth Journal Student Liaison (i.e. what's new section, secretary)
MEET THE STUDENT SECTION COORDINATORS
Konstantinos Tzoulas, PhD, BSc (Hons),
AMIEnvSc, in his Doctoral thesis, suggested a new grounded theory on
the contribution of urban biodiversity to human health and well-being.
He has studied and undertaken research at the University of Salford
since 1997. Recently, he contributed to the evaluation of the CITYgreen
software for modeling ecosystem services provided by green
infrastructure (Natural Economy Northwest Programme, 2007). He has also
esearched the role of green infrastructure in improving ecosystem
health and public health (University of Helsinki European Social
Network Fund, 2005). Recenlty, he has been an evaluator for Doctoral
and Post-Doctoral fellowships, in the area of environment and health,
for the Irish STRIVE programme (April and May 2007).
Sarah Olson is currently a Joint PhD candidate (Population Health and Environment & Resources) at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) within the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She studies land use and disease ecology, with a
focus on deforestation and malaria in the Amazon. After receiving a
BSc and BA w/ Honors from Montana State University-Bozeman, she
volunteered for Peace Corps and served as a science and math teacher in
Ghana from 2001-2003. When not at SAGE or on the computer, she is outside, trail running,
mountain biking, climbing, hiking, playing ultimate, and nordic skiing.Christine Banks is currently a Master's student in Conservation Biology at Columbia University. She received her B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University in 2003 where she assisted in field trials in the Department of Plant Breeding, completed an internship project on invasive plant species in the Cayuga Lake Basin at Cornell Plantations, and participated in a project researching nutrient and metals standards for different compost end usages while working for the Cornell Waste Management Institute at the Cornell Center for the Environment. In her "spare" time she is a Program Officer at Wildlife Trust. Her academic interests include human influences on and obstacles to avian conservation, conservation medicine, sustainability of agricultural systems, and conservation capacity building in developing countries. Christine's less academic interests include reading, hiking, napping, and eating lots of vegetables.