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A.M. Viens

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Director of the School of Global Health and York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics and Law, York University


A.M. Viens is the Inaugural Director of the School of Global Health and York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics and Law at York University. He has degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford, and London. His research specialization focuses on population health (i.e., public health and global health) ethics and law, with a particular interest in demonstrating how philosophical analysis, legal epidemiology, and regulatory theory should shape how we approach different issues within global health policy, practice, and research (especially infectious diseases, disasters and emergencies, and health promotion). His latest book is Public Health Law: Ethics, Governance, and Regulation, co-authored with John Coggon and Keith Syrett (Routledge, 2017). He is a member of the WHO Collaboration Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He is also an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and Royal Society of Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Analysis.

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