Donald C. Cole is a public health and occupational and environmental medicine dual specialist, with a masters’ in health research methods. During over forty years of practice, research and policy work, he has emphasized multi-stakeholder action processes to address important burdens of illness and to change eco-social conditions while improving health equity. He currently serves as a consultant, clinician, emeritus professor and member of a settler family farm in Saukiing Anishnabekiing (West Grey, Ontario). He is passionate about promoting resilience in human-ecosystem interfaces, including the health care system, particularly in rural areas.