Global Health Consortium

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Professor of Critical Development Studies and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Department
  • Public Health Sciences
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies

Areas of Expertise

• History of public health
• History of public health in Latin America (Mexico and Uruguay)
• International health
• Societal determinants of health
• Women and international health

Office: 416-287-7322
Home: 416-924-7803
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Website
Email: ae.birn@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nunavut

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Public Health Sciences
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic and inuit health
• COVID response
• Global health
• Global health ethics
• Pandemic influenza
• Primary care
• Public health
• Public health education
• Public health ethics
• Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
• Tobacco control
• Vaccinology

Office: Not Available
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Chalin

Professor Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Child poverty
• Disabilities – hearing loss
• Global public health
• Human rights
• Medical education
• Peace-building through public health
• Public health in conflicted regions of the world
• Uprooted people – refugees; street people; immigrants

Office: 416-978-7806
Email: c.chalin@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Jackson

Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Department
  • Public Health Sciences
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium

Areas of Expertise

• Community-engaged evaluation and research
• Health promotion
• Healthy communities/healthy settings
• Mental health promotion

Office: 416-536-8997
Email: suzanne.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Ze’ev Seltzer

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Pain Genetics

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Anaesthesia
  • Dentistry
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Global Health Consortium

Areas of Expertise

• Animal models of human diseases
• Genetics of pain
• Human and animal pain
• Neurobiology of pain
• Plasticity of the nervous system

Office: 416-979-4900 x4433
Home: 416-783-5296
Mobile: 647-287-3040
Languages: Hebrew
Email: zeev.seltzer@utoronto.ca
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