Rob Verkerk PhD

Rob Verkerk PhD

Multi-disciplinary scientist | Using science as a tool for good, not as a weapon for misinformation | Supporting health regeneration šŸŒ± | Working with nature, not against it! Freedom advocate | Educator & speaker šŸŽ¤

Chilworth, England, United Kingdom
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The vast majority of people on this remarkable planet of ours understand these 4 things about their health:

1. Feeling and being empowered over, and taking responsibility for, our own health will generally yield better health and resilience than handing over that responsibility to someone else
2. Eating wholesome food is better for us than eating junk food
3. Being physically active is more likely to build health and prevent disease than succumbing to the call of the couch
4. Having solid and enriching relationships with other people as well as with nature enhances our quality of our life and our overall health status and resilience
5. Being able to maintain a positive frame of mind, even when exposed to stressful situations, leads to better long-term health outcomes than if we canā€™t cope and find ourselves getting down and blue

Yet if most people understand these 5 things, how come health systems are crumbling under the weight of preventable chronic diseases?

Is it because these factors arenā€™t enough in themselves? Is it because different people respond differently to different lifestyle or behaviour changes? Is it because these things are often a lot easier said than done?

The answers to each of these questions are far from simple.

But getting under the covers of these kinds of issues ā€“ from findings ways of creating or regenerating health in individuals and in communities is the thing that makes me tick.

Finding ways of helping more people to co-create and regenerate health, while living more harmoniously with our natural environment on which we ultimately depend, is the mission of the non-profit, the Alliance for Natural Health, that I founded over 20 years ago. Itā€™s about applying the wisdom of nature to how we manage health. Itā€™s not about going backward, itā€™s about going forward and being nature-aligned and future fit.

As authoritarian creep takes hold, we also need to protect our rights to natural health, many of which are increasingly under threat from special interests and government overreach. This defensive work is another key strand of ANH's work.

Among our many projects is how we translate these approaches to the real world and develop community systems of health and care based on these principles.

I also provide support to businesses and practitioners in the natural health, integrative, functional or traditional medicine space through our consultancy, ANH Consultancy.

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  • Alliance for Natural Health USA Graphic

    Executive and Scientific Director

    Alliance for Natural Health USA

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    With challenges to natural health and freedom mounting in the USA, the UK and Europe, Iā€™m privileged to be asked to lead the ANH USA and International teams.

  • Executive Director

    Alliance for Natural Health Intl and USA

    - Present 1 year 5 months

    UK and USA

    Rob Verkerk PhD is a multi-disciplinary scientist, researcher, campaigner, freedom proponent and regenerative health advocate. He is the founder of one of the leading health freedom non-profits, the Alliance for Natural Health, heading up both the international base in the UK (since 2002) and, as of April 2023, also the US office. For 40 years, Dr Verkerk has used science as a tool for good, not as a weapon for misinformation, while upholding human inalienable rights, fundamental freedoms, andā€¦

    Rob Verkerk PhD is a multi-disciplinary scientist, researcher, campaigner, freedom proponent and regenerative health advocate. He is the founder of one of the leading health freedom non-profits, the Alliance for Natural Health, heading up both the international base in the UK (since 2002) and, as of April 2023, also the US office. For 40 years, Dr Verkerk has used science as a tool for good, not as a weapon for misinformation, while upholding human inalienable rights, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law. He has a MSc and PhD from Imperial College London where he continued his research as a postdoctoral research fellow for a further 7 years, working on projects in Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as Central and South-East Asia. He has published more than 250 articles questioning the mainstream approach to COVID-19, is a pioneer of new, nature-aligned approaches to human health, and has authored more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, including one of the largest studies on those who have exercised their right to avoid C19 genetic vaccines. Dr Verkerk is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a fellow of the Royal College of Medicine (London), and scientific advisor to the UK-based integrative cancer charity, Yes to Life.

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    Founder, executive & scientific director

    Alliance for Natural Health International

    - Present 22 years 4 months

    Guildford, England, United Kingdom

  • ANH Consultancy Ltd

    ANH Consultancy Ltd

    - Present 18 years

    ANH Consultancy provides a wide range of services to players in the natural products sector, facilitating particularly innovation, marketing, research and regulatory compliance. We focus particularly on companies with commercial interests in Europe, but also deal with other regions and territories.

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    Research Fellow

    Imperial College London

    - 6 years 8 months

    Studied multitrophic interactions in agro-ecosystems

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    Founder and director

    Systems Pest Management Pty Ltd

    - 9 years 8 months

    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    I set up Systems Pest Management in 1983 as a pioneering venture to develop and implement social and environmentally responsible urban pest management, initially in the Sydney Metropolitan Area and Blue Mountains. This was in response to the incredibly intensive use of organochlorine, organophosphate and carbamate pesticides being used at the time, and the lack of recognition of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) of which I was a sufferer. We pioneered pesticide-free approaches to termiteā€¦

    I set up Systems Pest Management in 1983 as a pioneering venture to develop and implement social and environmentally responsible urban pest management, initially in the Sydney Metropolitan Area and Blue Mountains. This was in response to the incredibly intensive use of organochlorine, organophosphate and carbamate pesticides being used at the time, and the lack of recognition of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) of which I was a sufferer. We pioneered pesticide-free approaches to termite and cockroach control back in the 1980s, and I published a book "Building Out Termites" that brought together all of our work in 1990. I was delighted to pass on the business to Nick Cooper when I resumed my academic studies (PhD) in the UK in January 1993.

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    Executive member, Toxic & Hazardous Chemicals Committee

    Total Environment Centre

    - 11 years 4 months

    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    My work as a volunteer with the TEC brought together many of my passions and concerns: protecting the natural environment through campaigns to stop the relentless destruction of native rainforests in Australia, through to campaigning to ban organochlorine pesticides, increasing public awareness about problems linked to chemicals in the environment, and working with clinicians to ensure the formal recognition of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).

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  • Alliance for Natural Health International

    Founder, executive and scientific director

    - Present

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