Inconsistent translations of the term One Health — a critical global health framework — could be undermining international efforts to safeguard human, animal and environmental well-being

Amid the escalating threat of climate change, environmental degradation and pandemics, global health depends more than ever on coordinated, cross-sectoral action. It’s why a growing number of researchers, practitioners and institutions are embracing One Health, a cooperative model that recognizes the interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health. But a new study led by Cary Wu, 91亚色 Research Chair in the Political Sociology of Health, warns that inconsistent and culturally mismatched translations of the term are quietly undermining collaboration efforts.

, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), the study reveals that in China alone, at least 20 different translations of the term One Health appear across policy documents, conference briefs, academic literature and media coverage. Similar inconsistencies were also found in Spanish and French. Without a consistent translation, coordination efforts suffer at the domestic and international level, and the One Health approach risks being poorly implemented across sectors and regions.

“If the term is translated in different ways, then people who are exposed to the term are isolated,” says Wu. “They don’t see the connections. Communication becomes a problem. Collaboration and knowledge creation become a problem. Local implementation becomes a problem.”

First introduced in global policy circles in 2004, the One Health approach was endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and others in 2008. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it has only gained momentum. “The idea is not new,” says Wu, who traces the concept back to Indigenous knowledge reaching back thousands of years. “When they think about health, it is connected back to the earth, the river and the natural environment. The idea is very ancient, but how to promote the implementation of the approach is new.” 

The model promotes integrated health governance across medicine, veterinary science and environmental policy, calling for governments, sectors and communities to collaborate. Yet the concept’s success hinges on local adoption, which often begins with awareness and engagement.

One Health in Chinese contexts

Wu led an interdisciplinary team of 91亚色 scholars with backgrounds in health, business, and design and colleagues from China in identifying and analyzing 87 Chinese-language documents, revealing a significant degree of variation in how the term One Health is rendered. While the most common translation, “同一健康” (tongyi jiankang or unified health), appeared in 40 per cent of documents, other translations included “全健康” (whole health), “健康一体” (health as one), “同一个健康” (same health) and “一体化健康” (integrated health) as well as the untranslated English phrase. 

The authors identify two potential root causes for the inconsistent translations in Chinese contexts. The first was the missed opportunity to establish a standard translation in 2014. That year, the first international symposium for One Health research was held in Guangzhou, and two One Health research centers were established. In all cases, the English term was used, resulting in various translations being adopted in press coverage.

The second is the lack of a top-down approach in promoting and championing the model. One Health has largely been introduced to China through academic and NGO channels, with different translations used to describe the concept. “To this day, the WHO, CCDC, and influential academic and political leaders have continued using different Chinese translations of the single term — One Health — in policy documents, conferences, and media releases,” Wu and co-authors write.

Recommended translation

The study recommends “同一健康” (unified health) as the most accurate, widespread and culturally appropriate Chinese translation of One Health. It aligns with both the WHO’s translation as well as traditional Chinese philosophical ideas about harmony between humans and nature.

The case for this translation is supported both by findings — the term appeared in 40 per cent of documents reviewed — and expert validation. In an interview with Dr. Jiahai Lu, founding director of the One Health Research Center at Sun Yat-sen University and chief editor of One Health Bulletin, he affirmed that tongyi jiankang is not only linguistically clear, but also conceptually aligned with the holistic vision of One Health.

A global issue, not just a Chinese one

While this study focuses on Chinese, the authors note similar inconsistencies in other major languages, including Spanish — where both “Una sola salud” and “Salud ?nica” are used — and French, which uses the terms “Une seule santé”, “Une santé” and “La santé unique.” While the differences may seem slight, the implications of inconsistent translations include siloed efforts, fragmented implementation, policy contradictions and public disengagement.

“If people are not exposed to or aware of this idea, they’re also less likely to practice or engage while living their everyday life,” says Wu. “How to protect animals, for example.” This kind of terminological fragmentation threatens the core promise of One Health: to serve as a unifying global framework for preventing future health crises through integrated, collaborative action.

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Professor Godfred Boateng is among researchers selected as Winter 2024 recipients from across Canada who are tackling some of the world’s most complex and pressing challenges 

The Government of Canada has appointed 91亚色 Professor Godfred Boateng in the Faculty of Health as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Global Health and Humanitarianism.

“Researchers across the country tackle some of the world’s most complex and pressing challenges related to the environment, housing, health and healing practices, technological innovations, and international relations. Investments in research help drive new discoveries that inform evidence-based public policy and positively impact Canadians for generations to come,” according to a CRC news release announcing new and renewed Chairs.

The CRC program facilitates world-class research at Canadian universities, boosting their global competitiveness, while also providing training opportunities for the next generation of highly skilled personnel through research, teaching and learning. 

Boateng is currently visiting Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria as part of a 91亚色 U delegation to Africa, to explore research opportunities, including collaborations with counterparts from local universities and research institutions.

“From global health to migration policy to planetary science to neurophysiology, 91亚色 faculty are at the forefront of research excellence in their respective fields,” said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation, who is leading the delegation to Africa. “I extend my sincere congratulations to our four new and renewed Canada Research Chairs whose impactful work benefits the lives of both Canadians and people around the world.”

An assistant professor in the School of Global Health, the director of the Global & Environmental Health Lab, and a faculty fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Boateng is also the principal investigator on?a new project, ?in the Greater Toronto Area.

Boateng’s research focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19 related health effects. His interdisciplinary research in these areas have been critical in transforming the understanding of the key social and structural determinants of health among vulnerable populations, including women, infants, children, and older adults.

The March 13 announcement for Winter 2024 recipients also included renewal of three CRCs: Profs (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies),?, () and?Steven Connor, (Faculty of Science.)

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TORONTO, Dec. 03, 2020?—?Most countries are not fulfilling their international legal obligations during COVID-19 and other public health emergencies, reveals new research by a consortium of 13 leading global health law scholars, hosted by the Global Strategy Lab (GSL) at 91亚色.

In 2019, members of the analyzed key aspects of the International Health Regulations (IHR) to authoritatively interpret what countries are legally allowed to do to each other during future public health crises like Ebola and SARS.

This work became even more relevant when the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading around the world early this year; the Global Health Law Consortium members reviewed how countries reacted to the outbreak based on the International Health Regulations that legally bind 196 countries in how they prevent, detect and respond to public health crises.

Subsequently, during a conference in South Africa, this group of legal experts developed consensus statements that authoritatively interpret of the IHR, which identifies the additional health measures countries can legally enact when responding to public health risks, and , which outlines countries’ legal duty to collaborate and assist one another in building national public health systems.

The consensus statements were published today in the prestigious .

, director of the Global Strategy Lab at 91亚色, is senior author on both consensus statements, and Roojin Habibi, research fellow at the GSL and doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, is lead author on the consensus statement that interprets Article 43 of the IHR.

“Many countries have taken overbroad measures, both in the past and now during the coronavirus outbreak, which indicate that the provisions within Article?43 of the International Health Regulations are not well understood and perhaps not fit for purpose,” says lead author Habibi.

Under Article 43 of the IHR, countries are permitted to exercise their sovereignty in taking additional health measures to respond to public health emergencies, provided that these measures are proportionate to the risk at hand, aligned with human rights imperatives, and backed by scientific evidence.

“COVID-19 has clearly shown that proper international cooperation is required to prevent infectious diseases from spreading across borders,” Habibi points out. “Based on our analysis, we believe that the global community needs a common understanding of the law at hand. We recommend revision and clarification of legal obligations contained in these Articles to facilitate collaboration and enhance pandemic responses in the future.”

According to Article 44, there is a common and shared responsibility among countries to make it possible for every country to achieve the core public health capacities identified in the IHR, which is overseen by the World Health Organization.

“Most countries in the world are currently violating their international legal obligations under Articles 43 and 44 of the International Health Regulations,” notes Hoffman. “This means that the rules that were supposed to guide governments’ responses to pandemics like COVID-19 are either misunderstood, toothless, or insufficient – most likely a combination of all three. The Global Health Law Consortium’s analyses of the International Health Regulations that were published today will help bring clarity to countries’ legal obligations during global health emergencies, but ultimately these regulations need to be urgently updated to better reflect the realities of the globalized world in which we all live.”

The two statements published today are the first consensus-based collaboration by members of the Global Health Law Consortium.

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Studies provide evidence for urgent need to tackle smoking globally, especially in low- to middle-income countries

TORONTO, June 20,?2019?–?There is no statistical evidence that global cigarette consumption has fallen as a result of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and in low- and middle-income countries it has actually increased, according to two studies led by global health researchers at 91亚色.

The studies, published in? (BMJ), put into question the widely held belief that the FCTC has been the most successful health treaty ever created. An international treaty adopted in 2003 to reduce harmful tobacco consumption, the FCTC’s ?had never been scientifically studied on a global level. The research also puts the spotlight on the urgent need not only for investment in tobacco control practices but also?an evaluation of the effectiveness of this international law and reporting practices.

“The policies promoted by this treaty?–?plain packaging, smoke-free areas, tobacco taxes?–?have been monolithically proven to be effective,” says Steven Hoffman,?professor in the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Faculty of Health, and Osgoode Hall Law School, who is?lead author of the studies.

“What this study shows is that it’s probably not enough at the global level to recognize these policies as important or to formally adopt them. We need countries to implement them to make sure they’re affecting people’s lives around the world. If not, what’s at stake, according to the WHO, is one billion people around the world might die from tobacco consumption in the 21st century.”

In the first study, Hoffman and co-author?Mathieu Poirier, assistant professor, 91亚色’s Faculty of Health,?analyzed data collected from 71 countries, representing 95 percent of the world’s tobacco consumption and over 80 percent of the world’s population between the years of 1970 and 2015. The data collection is the largest appraisal and selection of comparable national estimates of tobacco consumption done to date, in an effort to better understand international cigarette consumption trends since 1970. Researchers found that cigarette consumption fell in most countries, however consumption trends varied from country to country, especially in lower-income countries.

The??dataset looked at sales, production, imports, and exports, with up to six different sources compiled for each country per year. Researchers found a general decline in per capita cigarette consumption beginning around 1985 in five of the top ten cigarette-consuming countries: United States, Japan, Poland, Brazil, and Germany. The United States, Canada, and Australia all demonstrated similar continuous declines in consumption since the early 1980s, while Latin American and Caribbean countries experienced more modest declines. In contrast, per capita consumption rose steadily in China and Indonesia. China was found to be the world’s leading consumer of cigarettes, with over 2.5 million metric tonnes consumed in 2013 – more than the next 40 highest consuming countries combined.

In the second study, Hoffman and his team used the data from the first study and looked at it in the context of the?Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which has been ratified by 181 countries since its adoption in 2003. This gave researchers a clear intervention point on tobacco consumption for the study. The study?used two?quasi-experimental methods, the first using interrupted time-series analysis (ITS) and the second using in-sample forecast event modelling. The data showed?no significant change in the rate at which global cigarette consumption had been decreasing after adoption of the treaty.

“This study sets a new gold standard for how to evaluate international laws,” said co-author Poirier. “The FCTC was widely celebrated at the time it was launched and no one has actually evaluated that treaty on a global level until now.”

The research showed that after 2003, high income and European countries experienced a decrease in annual consumption by more than 1,000 cigarettes per adult, while low- and middle-income and Asian countries showed an increase of more than 500 cigarettes annually per adult.

Researchers suggest that varied implementation of tobacco control policies and shifting trends in cigarette affordability across countries may have generated market equilibrium effects that incentivized the tobacco industry to move its lobbying, marketing and promotion activities away from countries with strict guidelines and toward countries with less stringent measures.

“We found quantitative evidence that could support that idea: that tobacco companies, after the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, specifically went to jurisdictions that were not implementing proven tobacco control policies as rapidly as we saw in high income countries,” said Hoffman. “If this is true, this means the FCTC could even have unintentionally caused harm by encouraging tobacco companies to target the many more people who live in these areas and Asian countries who would have fewer governmental protections against the companies’ efforts.”

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Safeguarding the legitimacy of scientific advice in an era of “fake news”

TORONTO, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018?–At a time of “fake news” and a growing mistrust of scientific experts, researchers at 91亚色’s Global Strategy Lab are working to increase the likelihood that policy decisions will be informed by the best available science.

, Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at 91亚色, and his team at the , convened an international group of experts from several disciplines to prepare 12 journals articles offering a broad suite of insight into how to effectively create and manage scientific advisory committees (SACs). The project was undertaken to support the World Health Organization in improving its own SACs that produce clinical, health systems and public health guidance. The findings of the three-year-long effort were published this week as part of a special issue of the journal .

The special journal issue draws important lessons to be learned about SACs and their design, with two of the articles specifically considering SACs at the World Health Organization. These insights may help maximize the application of high-quality scientific research towards future policy and program decisions.

“The effectiveness of scientific advice depends greatly on having well-designed processes for generating that advice,” said Hoffman.

“With these 12 journal articles, we provide governments and international agencies with evidence-based guidance for setting up scientific advisory committees, tailoring them for each unique context, and ensuring that their work can be most impactful.”

The special journal issue explores SACs in a number of areas including environmental policy in California and globally as well as malaria control and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The special issue also includes insights from interviews with 35 senior World Health Organization staff.

It approaches SACs through an institutional design lens, by analyzing their formation, their size, and their functionality among other criteria.

“The good news is that small design changes can greatly improve the effectiveness of scientific advisory committees for greater public benefit. The composition of a committee matters, so does its chair, diversity, decision-making rules, stakeholder engagement, and many other factors. Governments and agencies like the World Health Organization that convene many scientific advisory committees can take a leadership role in further developing the science of scientific advice by studying their own processes and drawing lessons for improvement over time,” said Hoffman.

Some of the other key findings about scientific advisory committees include:

• Members of SACs must be transparent about their own conflicts, commitments, and biases which can then be appropriately managed
• SACs must balance the need to involve stakeholders in discussions without compromising the independence and integrity of the scientific process
• SACs facing scientific uncertainty should be transparent in how they evaluate evidence and should continuously discuss what it means to develop and provide scientific advice in political contexts

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TORONTO, August 14, 2018 ??– Yesterday the Ontario government announced a new online retail model that will allow cannabis to be sold online and through private retailers. Under the new planned regulation, the Ontario Cannabis Store will provide an online platform for the sale which will be followed by a private retail model by April 1, 2019. Consumers 19 and older will be able to purchase cannabis via an online retail platform provided by the Ontario Cannabis Store.? The OCS online channel will include a verification system that will ensure safe at-home delivery for cannabis products.

But what will the new provincial change for the sale of cannabis mean for public health?

is director of the??and a professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at 91亚色. He is a public health expert and international lawyer who has expertise on the UN drug control treaties and Canada's cannabis legalization plans. One of Canada's most influential scholars in global health governance, law and policy, Hoffman has served as an advisor to several national governments, the UN and the WHO. He is available for interviews on:

• Government vs. private sale of cannabis: will the Ontario government’s new plan leave the public vulnerable to public health risk via gaps in standards of regulation?
• Can provincial changes?which allow private companies to operate marijuana stores, with the provincial government still managing distribution and online sales, still meet federal cannabis sale regulations?
• Commercialization vs. legalization: can the two co-exist?

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TORONTO, April 19, 2018 – Researchers at 91亚色 have identified the most important organizations around the world that contribute to health and would need to be mobilized quickly in the event of an international health emergency like a pandemic.

Using internet-based algorithms, researchers at the university mapped the global health system, developing the most comprehensive and transparent list to date of organizations and stakeholders working to address global health challenges. The list they have developed is a critical tool not only to help mobilize organizations globally to deliver healthcare on the ground but also to ensure efforts are not duplicated.

“Think about an emergency situation. If a pandemic happens, we want to be able to quickly mobilize the full range of resources available in the world,” says Steven J. Hoffman, professor in the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Faculty of Health and Osgoode Hall Law School.

“That will include governments and international organizations, but it will also include the many non-governmental organizations that are not necessarily working in an organized fashion. By systematically identifying who is in the global health system and what they do, it means we can be empowered to start coordinating this effort and saving people’s lives around the world.”

Hoffman, who led the study, says the comprehensive list includes 203 organizations that focus on improving health in at least three countries.

“Over the past few decades there has been a proliferation of organizations that are working to improve health outcomes around the world,” says Hoffman. “When you have so many organizations, we need to make sure efforts are not duplicated and conflicts don’t happen. But first we need to understand who they are and to have a common language so that we can better understand the global health sector.”

In the study, researchers utilized the network structure of the internet to identify organizations that might be working in this space and then determined whether their primary intent is to promote global health. Hoffman’s team started with the World Health Organization’s website and used an algorithmic approach to identify similar websites from other organizations. They looked for similar websites in three different ways: those that had similar text content; those that connected to the World Health Organization’s website through hyperlinks; and those websites that people visit after Googling “World Health Organization” and other global health terms.

The study tested the analytical helpfulness of a definition of the global health system through a network mapping exercise that examined the interconnected nature of websites representing organizations in the global health system.

The study also showed an overwhelming presence of health organizations in high-income countries, including more than half in the United States. Cities such as Washington D.C., New 91亚色 and Geneva had a higher proportion of identified health organizations than elsewhere.

The global health system has faced significant expansion over the past few decades, including continued increase in both the number and diversity of organizations operating within it, says Hoffman. However, without a stronger understanding of what the global health system encompasses, coordination of organizations and resources to address today’s global health challenges will not be possible.

The study is published in .

Watch Professor Hoffman explain the findings in this video

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Outbreaks during holiday periods and summer may be deadly

?TORONTO, Friday, January 19, 2018 – New research shows that political dilly-dallying delays global responses to emerging pandemics more than poor surveillance capacity.

Steven J. Hoffman, professor in the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, Faculty of Health and Osgoode Hall Law School and his colleague Sarah L. Silverberg, conducted an analysis of the three most recent pandemics – H1N1, Ebola and Zika. These were used as case studies to identify and compare sources of delays in responding to pandemics and examine what influences the length of delays.

The general assumption prior to the study was that there would be quicker responses observed for more severe outbreaks or those that threaten larger numbers of people. In global disease outbreaks, there are significant time delays between the source of an outbreak and global collective action. Recent delays have been lengthened by insufficient surveillance capacity and time-consuming political processes for mobilizing action.

The study found that slow political mobilization is responsible for almost twice as much delay in responding to pandemics than is insufficient surveillance capacity. In addition, the research showed there seems to be a faster response for novel diseases when U.S. citizens are infected, and when outbreaks are not during holidays.

"Our findings are surprising because the world’s efforts to mitigate pandemics have thus far been focused on improving surveillance, with very little attention being placed on how to quicken political mobilization. That needs to change,” says Hoffman.

According to the analysis, the H1N1 outbreak was the least severe disease of the three pandemics and attracted the fastest global mobilization. It therefore seems unlikely that severity, especially as demonstrated by the early outbreak, dictates speed of mobilization.

The analysis also found that the speed of a response is not explained by other rational factors. In global disease outbreaks, generally one would think that when more countries are affected, a global response would be faster. Yet the outbreak of microcephaly related to Zika virus contradicts this hypothesis, as the virus affected 21 countries before a pandemic was finally declared. Only three countries had H1N1 infections when that outbreak was declared a pandemic.

In addition, the study found that direct impacts on U.S. citizens may be a?necessary?condition for a global response to a pandemic.

"In?all three case studies,?emergencies were declared after only a few days of the first US citizens being infected,” says Hoffman. “The three pandemics, especially Ebola and Zika, were allowed to fester for long periods of time in their originating countries before the world cared."

This study is published online in the

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TORONTO, July 17, 2017 –91亚色 is pleased to serve as the new host for the (颁滨贬搁’蝉) (IPPH). The move comes with newly-appointed 91亚色 professor, , who has been serving as IPPH’s Scientific Director since August 1, 2016.

Hoffman has been as a full Professor with the School of Health Policy & Management and Osgoode Hall Law School. Hoffman will be nominated for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Governance & Social Innovation.

CIHR’s IPPH provides leadership and support to advance population and public health research in Canada and around the world. This is the first time that 91亚色 is hosting a CIHR Institute.

“91亚色 is delighted to be the new host for the Institute of Population and Public Health. With this move, we will have the opportunity to make an important contribution to supporting health research and CIHR,” said Vice-President Research & Innovation, Dr. Robert Haché. “This aligns with our growing profile as research leaders in health equity, the social determinants of health, and the health and wellness of communities.”

“This is exciting for 91亚色 because it represents a really important contribution to health research across Canada,” said Hoffman. “The CIHR Institutes are responsible for coming up with new funding opportunities, knowledge translation activities, and networking events that bring researchers in Canada together. By hosting CIHR’s Institute of Population and Public Health, 91亚色 is contributing to the agency’s national mission and overall goal of having a global impact.”

Hoffman is also part of 91亚色’s which reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of global health with involvement from faculties across the University, initially focused within the Faculty of Health.

“Thanks to Professor Hoffman’s leadership and expertise, 91亚色 will benefit from enhanced global and public health research capacity.” said 91亚色 Faculty of Health Dean Paul McDonald. "Hosting the Institute of Population and Public Health is affirmation that 91亚色 is an emerging and innovative leader in these interdisciplinary fields and is consistent with our long standing focus on equity and social justice.”

“The ethos of interdisciplinarity at Canada’s progressive university will hopefully elevate the kind of work we can do at the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health as we serve our national mission of promoting excellent health research across the country,” added Hoffman.

IPPH plays a dual role in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). It works externally with public health and population health researchers and partners and internally to enable CIHR portfolios and Institutes to support research focused on the health of populations, societal and cultural dimensions of health and environmental influences on health.

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TORONTO, June 1, 2017 – As Canada’s progressive university, a 91亚色 education shapes the global perspective, and embraces innovation in teaching, learning, and research. 91亚色’s Faculty of Health has announced two important appointments, both demonstrating momentum in one of the University’s emerging areas of academic and research excellence: global health.

has been named inaugural Director of the effective September 1, 2017. Established in 2015, the Institute provides leadership and innovation to improve global health. This initiative has been made possible with a $20 million transformational donation from Victor Phillip Dahdaleh, a UK-based Canadian business leader and 91亚色 alumnus.

The Institute reflects 91亚色’s commitment to interdisciplinary approaches and draws on research strengths from across the University. A champion of global health and humanitarianism throughout his career, Orbinski is an internationally renowned professor, medical doctor, researcher, author, and passionate advocate. He is the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders during which he helped launch its Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. He has advised the UN Security Council, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his humanitarian leadership in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

“As an institution, 91亚色 is committed to values that are completely synonymous with my own,” said Orbinski, “It is fundamentally committed to equity and social justice, and to bringing the resources of a university to make the world a better place, through global health. I believe that our world is made by what we do, and what we do is driven by our values. For me, 91亚色 is a community that I feel deeply privileged to be joining.”

, has been appointed as a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management, effective July 1, 2017. He is cross-appointed to Osgoode Hall Law School and will also be a key contributor to the Institute. The University will be nominating him for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Social Innovation. Hoffman is one of Canada's most influential scholars in global health governance, law and policy, having served as an advisor to several national governments, the UN and the WHO. In 2016, Hoffman was appointed the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (颁滨贬搁’蝉) Institute of Population and Public Health. With his appointment, 91亚色 will serve as the new administrative host of CIHR’s Institute of Population and Public Health.

“Global health challenges don’t fit neatly into one discipline, so I focus on bringing together research from different places to solve real-world problems,” said Hoffman, “91亚色 is an exciting place to learn and do research. I am eager to leverage my background as an international lawyer and interdisciplinary social scientist to build bridges across campus.”

“With the historic and generous $20 million gift from Victor Dahdaleh to build on 91亚色's growing strength in global health, and with the appointment of Drs. Orbinski and Hoffman, two world leaders in this field, the University is poised to become an international leader in global health research, problem solving and public policy,” said Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor of 91亚色. “The lasting global impact will make a meaningful difference in people’s lives now and in the future.”

“It’s a privilege to welcome two of the world’s most influential thinkers, visionaries, and advocates for global and population health to 91亚色,” said Paul McDonald, Dean, Faculty of Health, 91亚色, “James and Steven join a progressive minded community of academics who are contributing to the development of cutting-edge health research that is changing the dynamics of health issues, health care services and health systems in Canada and globally. They will play an important role in helping us build Canada’s first undergraduate degree program in global health.”

Home to Canada’s only global health program, 91亚色’s Faculty of Health was founded in 2006 by integrating four academic units with varying perspectives. No university in Canada combines these strengths in equivalent depth.

is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university – our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.
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