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Alan Ewert.
IU Bloomington

Alan Ewert

School of Public Health

Expert Bio

Alan Ewert is a Distinguished and Titled Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He also holds the Patricia and Joel Meier Endowed Chair in Outdoor Leadership and served as the chair for the Department of Environmental Health in Indiana University’s School of Public Health-Bloomington.

Ewert served in the USDA Forest Service as project leader and supervisory research social Scientist and branch chief of Recreation, Wilderness and Urban Forestry Research in Washington, D.C. His research interests and expertise include human health and natural environments, natural resources and the human dimension, resilience, and adventure education.

Areas of Expertise

Human health and natural environments; factors related to the development of resilience and related terms; adventure education; health, well-being and society; natural resources and human dimensions