Ronald Labonté

Biography

Ronald Labonté is Canada Research Chair in Globalization & Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, and Professor, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, at the University of Ottawa, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan. He is the former Director of the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), a bi-university interdisciplinary research organization he created and led from 1999 until 2004, that was committed to engaged research on population health determinants at local, national and global levels. Ron is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, and a past board member of provincial and national public health associations in Canada. He recently worked with international colleagues in preparing The Global Health Watch, an alternative world health report, released in July, 2005. Recent books include Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era (co-authored with Ted Schrecker and Amit Sen Gupta, Centre for Social Justice, 2005); and Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (co-authored with Ted Schrecker, David Sanders and Wilma Meeus, University of Cape Town Press/IDRC Books, 2004). Ron, and his colleague Ted Schrecker, will be coordinating the knowledge network hub on globalization for the recently announced WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-2007). Prior to joining academia in 1999, Ron worked 10 years as international health promotion and public health consultant, and 15 years with provincial and local governments and NGOs in community health development. 

Research Interest

 Health Equity.