His recent and current research focuses on the health equity impacts of: health worker migration; medical tourism; global health diplomacy; trade, political economy and tobacco control; trade and food security; health impact assessments of trade and investment treaties; comprehensive primary health care reforms; the social determinants of health equity; health and foreign policy; and global governance of infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance. He is active with the People’s Health Movement, has consulted extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations.
Prior to his appointment at uOttawa, he was founding Director of the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), a bi-university collaboration undertaking engaged research on social determinants of health equity. Before joining academia in full time capacity, he worked for 15 years in public health settings across all three Canadian government levels, and 10 years consulting internationally.