Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health & Humanitarianism and Planetary Health
Research Fellow

Raphael Aguiar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, earning his PhD in Health Policy and Equity from 91亚色.
With over a decade of experience in Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Raphael worked in international development as a project manager for the international NGO Humanity and Inclusion (formerly Handicap International). There, he led projects in both humanitarian and developmental settings, advancing rights-based and fields-based approaches through the development of primary healthcare services, advocacy for the adoption of National Policies and International Conventions, and implementation of national action plans.
In the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Raphael led units and teams focused on knowledge and information management pertaining to serious crimes, human rights abuses, and administrative challenges. In the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordination Office in Cameroon, he worked on the development of crisis risk management initiatives.
He is currently engaged in projects supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada-Infectious Disease and Climate Change Fund and SSHRC-New Frontiers in Research Fund, focusing respectively on the development of a One Health governance system addressing infectious diseases and climate change and on jointly analysing governance of emerging global health threats (infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food insecurity, and climate change).
Additional research interests: global health governance, global health programs and interventions, urban political ecology, urbanization, climate crisis, One Health, environmental stewardship.
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
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2025 Year in Review | December 18, 2025
91亚色 experts call for equity in fight against antimicrobial resistance | November 10, 2025 Reimagining AMR Governance for a World in Polycrisis | July 21, 2025 Commentary 鈥 Why Canada Needs a 鈥淒eep Prevention鈥 Approach to Pandemic Preparedness | July 11, 2025 Unpacking AMR Podcast: New Episode - New Conceptions to Manage AMR (Part 2) | July 8, 2025 2024 Year in Review | December 19, 2024 Hot off the Press 鈥 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Its Associated Inequities Do Not Occur in Isolation; Solutions Must Also Be Interconnected | October 11, 2024 Connecting Planetary Health and Planetary Urbanization: Reflections on the 2024 AAG Annual Meeting | September 12, 2024 Hot off the Press 鈥 The Urban Political Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Critical Lens on Integrative Governance | February 26, 2024 |
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