Michael Fox, D.Sc., Ph.D.

Dr. Michael W. Fox, living in Minnesota, USA, is a veterinarian, graduate of the Royal Veterinary College, London, with a PhD in the faculty of medicine and Doctor of Science in ethology/animal behavior from the University of London, England: Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, of the British Veterinary Association, Honor Roll Member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, member of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, founding member of the International Association for Applied Animal Ethology, and Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary One Health Society. Formerly a Vice President of the Humane Society of the U.S. and associate professor of psychology at Washington University, St Louis, where he was given the Alumni Federation outstanding Faculty Award.

He helped make animal behavior and animal welfare science part of the veterinary teaching curriculum around the world, and through his weekly U.S. syndicated newspaper column Animal Doctor, published in 12 states, promotes companion animal well-being, reverence for life and One Health. He has authored and edited over 40 books, including award-winning children’s fiction. His website is www.drfoxonehealth.com.

Dr. Fox's 2025 book published by CRC Press, One Health: Veterinary, Ethical & Environmental Perspectives is a collection of reflective, critical, philosophical, and practical chapters represents the author’s 60 years as a veterinarian, ethologist, and bioethicist. The rising incidence of zoonotic diseases from farmed animals and wildlife in the expanding human population and so-called reverse zoonoses where humans are infecting other species are existential concerns. These concerns are linked with anthropogenic climate change and our impact on ecosystems which threaten biodiversity and the health and future of Homo sapiens and many other species.

These interconnected issues are examined in this book, broadening the scope and agenda of what is currently more narrowly practiced as preventive medicine. The author calls for greater emphasis on holistic preventive health-care maintenance in response to the escalating costs of human and companion animal health problems, the welfare of factory farmed animals, and endangered status of many wild species.

Our species now faces a complex existential crisis that must be addressed in an interdisciplinary way, because there are multiple contributing factors; factors that call for the insights of science and bioethics. Fearlessly tackling contentious issues and ‘wicked problems,’ this book offers an integrated perspective of what One Health looks like on the ground.