Alain Touwaide

Alain Touwaide (born 19 September 1953 in Brussels-Berchem Sainte Agathe) is a US historian of medicine and sciences of Belgian origin.

He won numerous prizes and grants, among others of the Earth Watch Institute, and has taught at several universities in Spain, Italy, France and Belgium.

[1] His main research area is medicinal plants of Antiquity, his approach being transdisciplinary, that is, not only philological and historical, but also botanical and medical, ethnological and anthropological, constituting ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology.

In 2005, Touwaide received a grant of the National Institutes of Health for a four-year research project “Medicinal plants of Antiquity: A Computerized Database”.

[2] He is one of the founders, and the principal investigator of the UNESCO Chair Plantae Medicinales Mediterraneae-Plants for Health in the Mediterranean Traditions,[3] which was established at the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2020.