This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need and relevance to help wildlife cope with the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene, manifested by global megatrends such as climate change, urbanization and pollution. It adapts and adopts key concepts of population health from public health and herd health to a wildlife health context. In a highly-accessible and unique form, this book presents a modern way of approaching wildlife and fish epidemiology, health promotion and disease control, with a focus on the social dimensions of wildlife health management.

Aimed at graduate students in veterinary medicine, wildlife researchers and health managers this textbook provides a valuable source of information to foster the knowledge and skills needed to protect and promote the health of free-ranging wildlife.

PART 1 - Core Concepts of Wildlife Population Health

Chapter 1. What is wildlife health?  Craig Stephen
Chapter 2. Wildlife population health strategies.-  Chapter 3. Population health core competencies
PART 2 - Foundations of wildlife population health management.- Chapter 4. Epidemiological study design in free-ranging wildlife - Theoretical and practical considerations
Chapter 5. Participatory epidemiology and surveillance for wildlife health.- Chapter 6. Causation in wildlife population health
Chapter 7. Investigating Wildlife Disease as a Social Problem.- Chapter 8. Evidence-based decision making
Chapter 9. Wildlife health surveillance and intelligence. Challenges and opportunities
Chapter 10. Health Protection and Promotion for Disease Management in Free-Ranging Wildlife Populations
PART 3 - Confronting 21st century challenges to wildlife population health
Chapter 11. From Amazon Floods and Australian Wildfires to Human Spills and Explosions: What Disasters Mean to Wildlife
Chapter 12. Urbanization
Chapter 13. Climate change
Chapter 14. Landscapes supporting wildlife health
Chapter 15.  An emerging disease agenda for wildlife health management.- Chapter 16. Pollution and wildlife health
Chapter 17. Working in a complex, wicked and messy world of wildlife health
Chapter 18. Applying a health lens in managing species at risk under threat of alien invasive species
PART 4 - Wildlife health promotion concepts.- Chapter 19. Human dimensions of wildlife health management
Chapter 20. Healthy policy for healthy wildlife
Chapter 21. Stakeholder engagement for wildlife health management
Chapter 22. Leading change with diverse stakeholders
Chapter 23. Bridging the knowing-to-doing gap in wildlife population health
Chapter 24. Preparing for the unexpected
Chapter 25. Wildlife health solutions depend on effective risk communication.<br>