[1] As a musician he is best known for his musical work with the dance punk band Woodhands,[2] and his collaboration with Maylee Todd in the project Ark Analog.
[3] In 2011 he also participated in the National Parks Project, collaborating with musicians Sebastien Grainger and Jennifer Castle, and filmmaker Catherine Martin, to produce and score a short documentary film about Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in Quebec.
[1] In 2015, he received a research grant for work in HIV/AIDS and drug addiction prevention.
[1] In 2019, he published the book City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands, an examination of the complex factors threatening the safety of poor women in the Tijuana area of Mexico.
[6] His 2022 book The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure was the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.