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Clinical scientist, Bruyère Research Institute

About

Ted Schrecker is a clinical scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute, a partnership between Bruyère Continuing Care and the University of Ottawa. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the University's Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and a Principal Scientist at the University's Institute of Population Health.

A political scientist by background and an activist by inclination, Ted has a special interest in globalization, political economy, and issues (such as health and human rights) at the interface of science, ethics, law and public policy. From 2005-2007, he coordinated the Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and subsequently was one of the lead authors of a report to WHO that examined the implications of the Commission’s findings for future research priorities. He has just finished editing the Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health; a four-volume collection of major works in global health that he co-edited with colleagues Ron Labonté, K.S. Mohindra and Kirsten Stoebenau has just been published in the Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare.