Ryan Hoskins
Class of 2016
Ryan has practiced family and emergency room medicine in a wide array of locations in rural and remote parts of Canada, as well as in Cuba, Kenya and Venezuela. He has an MSc in Health Economics and Policy from the London School of Economics as well as a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene. He is fascinated by the politics and economics of healthcare – exploring the impact of trade relations and diplomacy on health, as well as the different responses internationally towards the challenges of smoking, unhealthy eating, health insurance, pharmaceutical costs and population control.
Russia’s Silent HIV Epidemic
What Canada can learn from tiny Estonia’s huge fentanyl problem
5 reasons the Zika – microcephaly link might be overblown
How Canada lost its chance to make anti-tobacco history
When doctors strike, fewer patients die
Why are people more likely to die when admitted to hospital on weekends?
Mandating seats for children on airplanes could cause more deaths
Britain is taking holiday heart attacks seriously. Why isn’t the US?
Freaked out by tapeworm tale? Don’t be.
End of anti-venom production puts snakebite victims in grave peril: ‘It’s a long, grinding tragedy’
