About the Project
Follow the Science is a book and public project exploring how science, policy, and human judgment intersected during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This site serves as a companion to the book. It offers context, selected resources, and space for readers to explore the questions raised in its pages. The goal is not to tell readers what to think, but to support thoughtful, independent inquiry.
The project was created by Kevin Vowles, a public health professional with two decades of experience in prevention, risk analysis, and community health. His work within Canada’s health system during the pandemic, and the personal consequences that followed, became the foundation for this book.
Follow the Science approaches the Pandemic as a complex human and institutional event. It brings together lived experience and publicly available information, recognizing both what was known and what remained uncertain at different moments in time.
Rather than seeking to resolve debate, the work creates space for careful reflection. It asks how decisions were made, how dissent was handled, and how trust can be rebuilt when confidence in institutions is shaken.
About the Author
Kevin Vowles is a public health professional, teacher, writer, and sailor based in Canada.
He holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a focus on risk, prevention, and the evaluation of complex systems under conditions of uncertainty. Over a career spanning more than two decades, his work has included education, injury prevention, and community health, including time working with Indigenous communities and within British Columbia’s public health system.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kevin served as an Injury and Violence Education Consultant with Island Health. In 2022, his employment ended after he declined COVID-19 vaccination based on documented medical concerns and his assessment
of the evolving evidence. That experience, and the circumstances surrounding it, became a turning point.
What followed was not only a professional rupture, but a deeper inquiry into how public institutions make decisions under pressure, how dissent is handled, and how individuals are affected when policy and uncertainty collide. These questions form the foundation of Follow the Science.
Kevin’s work is grounded in a commitment to careful thinking, precision of language, and respect for lived experience. He writes not to prescribe conclusions, but to invite readers into a more reflective engagement with complex issues—where evidence, ethics, and human impact are considered together.