Stefan Iwasawa BSc has been the Vector Specialist at the BC Center for Disease Control for the last two and a half years. Prior to this he was a project coordinator for the Ticks and Climate Change 3-West project that was a One Health initiative funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada focused on the impacts of climate change on tick-borne disease in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. For the last 17 years he was also a project coordinator at the Centre for Coastal Health focusing on a diverse range of One Health projects. He got his first taste of tick sampling while on a field school in Belize Central America and took part in several years of West Nile virus surveillance in BC.
