Kaylee Byers

Dr. Kaylee Byers (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and Deputy Director of the British Columbia node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. Kaylee is a settler scholar with roots in Canada’s maritime and prairie provinces. She works in the space of connected human, animal, and environmental health (called One Health) and health communications. Her research spans urban to rural ecosystems and aims to understand how human perceptions of wildlife and zoonotic diseases influence their participation in health surveillance and management programs for issues such as Chronic Wasting Disease, Avian Influenza, and Rat-Associated Zoonoses. She is especially interested in creative forms of knowledge mobilization that share community stories and inspire deep reflection. For the past decade Kaylee has been an active science communicator. She is the host of Genome BC’s podcast Nice Genes!, a biweekly podcast about genomics. She is also the co-founder of the science seminar series Nerd Nite Vancouver.