Monitoring Health Inequalities by SES: Lessons from Scotland
Professor John Frank trained in Medicine and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, in Family Medicine at McMaster University, and in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He has been Professor (now Emeritus) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto since 1983; founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 to 1997; and inaugural Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health (2000-2008).
In July 2008, he became Director of a new Edinburgh-based Unit, funded by the Medical Research Council and the Scottish Chief Scientist
Office: the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. The Collaboration seeks to develop and robustly test novel public health policies and programs to equitably improve health status in Scotland, through the convening and ongoing support of researcher/research-user consortia. He holds a Chair in Public Health Research and Policy at the University of Edinburgh.”
May 27, 2013 @ Dalla Lana School of Public Health
President of the World Federation Of Public Health @ DLSPH
Jim Chauvin, President of the World Federation of Public Health and Director of Policy for the Canadian Public Health Association, gives a presentation at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health on policy advocacy by public health associations in Canada and globally.