tschreck@uottawa.ca
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Ted Schrecker is a scientist and Associate Professor in the University of Ottawa’s Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and a principal investigator at the University’s Institute of Population Health.

Ted’s academic background is in political science, with a special interest in globalization, political economy, and issues at the interface of science, ethics, law and public policy.  At the end of the 1970s, he worked in the New Democratic Party caucus research unit at the Legislature of Ontario, specializing in energy and environment.  He then spent many years as a consultant, during which he was one of the few non-lawyers to undertake multiple research projects for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, the results of these projects were published. He has also been a full time faculty member in the Environmental and Resource Studies Program (at Trent University) and the Department of Political Science (at the University of Western Ontario, where the outline for his course on feminism and political theory was published in the first Canadian collection of syllabi on this topic). 

Most recently, before coming to the University of Ottawa Ted was an associate member of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law; associate scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ontario; and research associate at the Saskatchewan Population Health Research and Evaluation Unit (SPHERU) at the University of Saskatchewan.  Some of his research is described in the Spring, 2007 issue of  the University of Ottawa’s Tabaret Magazine.

Ted is a co-author of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (IDRC Books/University of Cape Town Press, 2004) and numerous related publications on globalization and health; he has also published widely on environmental policy and law. He contributed to Global Health Watch, the first annual alternative health report. He also acted as Hub coordinator for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health; the Network was based at the Institute of Population Health.  For links to recent publications and presentations, visit his publication list. 

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