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AHMED, Rukhsana »

Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Communication

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3834)
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Health communication is a convergent discipline with multiple actors, people, organizations, and mass media communicating health related messages. These messages are mediated through various socio-cultural, political, and economic factors. I am particularly interested in the ways systems of beliefs, values, actions, and symbols that are shared by people and social groups and that differ among them influence communication in health care interactions.

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English only, Bengali

ATTARAN, Amir »

Amir Attaran

Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2889)
Cell: 613-276-7687
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E-mail

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International development and foreign aid; international human rights law and particularly how it applies to the war in Afghanistan; global public health in the poorer countries.

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BANERJEE, Nipa »

PhD. / Professor
Visiting professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4531)
Cell: 613-697-9814
Home: 613-842-9814
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Foreign Aid; Aid Effectiveness; Development Issues-South and South East Asia; Development Issues in Post Conflict Countries and Peace Building Measures; Fragile States Research; Development and Reconstruction in Afghanistan . More than 35 years of experience with CIDA, IDRC and NGOs. Lived and worked several years as a professional in several South and South East Asian Countries (including in Afghanistan). Travelled widely and continues to make quarterly visits to developing countries for research purposes.

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English only, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu

BEAUDET, Pierre »

Professor
Lecturer
Faculty of Social Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4049)
Cell: 514-577-6606
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International development. Third-World countries situation. Africa.

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BEST, Jacqueline »

Jacqueline BEST

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1719)
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Jacqueline Best's research is in the field of international studies, with a particular interest in global economic issues. She has written on the history of financial governance, as well as on the recent financial crisis. She also studies international organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF, and her current research is on changes in their development policies over the last two decades. She is interested in issues such as the limits of risk management, the challenges of transparency, the problems of results-based management, and the cultural aspects of economic practices (such as consumer debt).

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BETCHERMAN, Gordon »

Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2568)
Cell: 613-447-8464
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Labour market developments, including jobs and unemployment in Canada and internationally. Trends in globalization including developments in emerging economies such as China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Social policy including employment insurance and training.

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BROWN, Stephen »

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1896)
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I study a variety of issues relating to democracy and democratization, conflict and violence, and foreign aid and development in Africa (especially Kenya and Malawi), including Canadian foreign policy in these areas. I also have a strong interest in Canadian foreign aid more generally. I am also interested in the politics of sexuality / homosexuality and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Canada and abroad, including in developing countries.

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English and French , espagnol / Spanish; portugais / Portuguese

CHONG, Alberto »

Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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International Development, Economics, Social Sciences

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DADE, Carlo »

Senior Fellow
Senior fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: (613) 562-5800 x8976
Cell: (613) 796-9459
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Website Blog

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A practitioner with extensive experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR) including government funding of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as well as the role of diasporas in foreign and development policies. Regular media commentator on all aspects of Canada - Latin American relations. Current research focuses on role of private enterprises and diasporas in international development, Canada-Mexico relations and trans-Pacific trade including the Pacific Alliance and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Former Executive Director of the Canadian Foundation on the Americas, Canada's only think tank devoted to the western hemisphere and former Canada Director of the Canada-Mexico Initiative.

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DEONANDAN, Raywat »

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8377)
Cell: 613-261-0020
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Trends in the impacts and implications of assisted human reproduction technologies. The ethics of reproductive medical tourism (the phenomenon, mostly, of infertile individuals from wealthy nations traveling to less developed nations to acquire reproductive services, such as surrogate mothers). The addressing of preventable blindness in rural India 4. Health education among Aboriginals in the deep interior of the South American rainforest Science education in poorly resourced areas.

I am an acclaimed fiction author (winner of the national book award of the nation of Guyana), and can speak about Canadian, Caribbean and world literature.

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DESROSIERS, Marie-Eve »

Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8987)
Office: 613-562-5680
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Marie-Eve Desrosiers is assistant professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies. Her research focuses on the security of developing countries. She studies political crises and civil conflicts, the role of identity in contentious politics, state-society relations, as well as state fragility. Her most recent studies have examined episodes of political violence in Rwanda during the twentieth century. She also conducts research on Canadian foreign and international development policy. She was a founder of the francophone branch of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security and she regularly takes part in civil society activities pertaining to human security.

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DORAN, Marie-Christine »

Dr
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2009)
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I work on the evolution of democracy and governance in Latin America. Themes such as : political changes (turn to the left), violence, justice and human rights, poverty, socio-political and religious movements, political legitimacy, as well as Latin America's relation with other parts of the world are my main areas.

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English and French , Espagnol

FIRESTONE, Bruce Murray »

Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Part-time professor
Telfer School of Management

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4725)
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Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship education, mentoring and research focused on self-capitalized enterprises using smart business models and guerrilla marketing.

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FOSTER, Angel »

Echo Endowed Chair in Women’s Health Research
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2316)
Cell: 617-417-9974
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Dr. Angel M. Foster holds a DPhil (doctorate) in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an AM (master's degree) from Stanford University. She has conducted multi-methods research on women’s health in Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, the Thailand/Burma border, Tunisia, and the United States. Her current research focuses on expanding access to emergency contraception, increasing access to safe, high quality, and affordable abortion services improving the reproductive health training of health service professionals, and Identifying and addressing the reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations including young/unmarried women and refugees/displaced women. She has published more than 40 articles, book chapters, and technical reports on women's health and her first book, Emergency contraception: The story of a global reproductive health technology, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012 (co-edited with L.L. Wynn).

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HAINZELIN, Étienne »

Visiting professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8979)
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As an agronomist by training, with a PhD in genetics and plant breeding, I’ve worked in a wide array of contexts and countries. I have held long-term positions in Ivory Coast, Réunion Island, Canada, Brazil and France, as well as gone on missions in close to 40 countries. My scientific efforts have centred mostly on corn and sugar cane. Over time, given my responsibilities as a director of research, I became interested in the links between the social sciences and agronomics in general, with a special focus on the interaction between social dynamics, governance models and global transformations in rural settings.

Over the past four years, I worked as research and strategy director for CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement), which focuses on the prime issues surrounding the role of agriculture in southern hemisphere nations, both from the discipline’s traditional perspectives (production, transformation, food production and processing, etc.) and from its newer angles (environmental impact, ecological services, poverty reduction, land management, multi-functionality, etc.). At CIRAD, I played an active role in recasting and redirecting the research issues and scientific strategies of the major French, European and international centres and institutes in the field.

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JOURDE, Cédric »

Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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African politics, Islam in Africa, Sahel (Senegal; Mauritania; Mali), democratization, ethnic conflicts.

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LEMAIRE, Edward »

PhD
Associate professor
Faculty of Medicine
Institute for Rehabilitation Research and Development

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Office: 613-737-7350 (75592)
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Technological approaches to improve mobility for people with physical disabilities and the elderly. Computer/Internet applications for physical rehabilitation, assistive devices, prosthetics/orthotics, telehealth, telemedicine, e-learning, motion analysis, and CAD/CAM.

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MENDES, Errol »

Errol MENDES

Former Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre
Full professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5890
Cell: 613-799-0559
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Globalization, United Nations, foreign policy, international law and human rights,law and policy on anti-terrorism, Constitutional law, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Private and Public Sector governance, including issues relating to accountability, transparency and integrity.

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MUNRO, Lauchlan »

Lauchlan Munro

Director
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of International Development and Global Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1940)
Cell: 613-878-5001
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1) Does aid to developing countries work? Why or why not?

2) How can governments in poor countries provide adequate health care and education to all their citizens, including the poorest and most vulnerable?

3) How should governments around the world cope with economic risk and uncertainty?

4) How can governments in poor countries provide social protection (health insurance, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, drought relief)?

5) What role does science and technology play in development? What do appropriate science-for-development policies look like?

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NICKERSON, Jason »

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-6262 (1620)
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Humanitarian aid; Health services during humanitarian emergencies; Health response to disasters, conflicts and crises; Foreign medical teams; Surgical care in low- and middle-income countries; Global public health; Coordination of humanitarian aid and assistance.

I study the ways in which health needs are established and prioritized during large humanitarian crises such as natural disasters and wars. I specifically focus on understanding and improving public health statistics and information related to the functioning of health systems/services/resources in crises, and population statistics such as mortality surveys and estimates and malnutrition assessments following disasters and wars.

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SAAVEDRA-VARGAS, Marcelo »

Professor
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Cell: 613-762-7822
Home: 613-837-0058
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Indigenous perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions, indigenous epistemologies, development, globalization, sustainable development, indigenous governance

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English and French , Spanish

STEGER, Debra »

Debra Steger

Full professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613 562 5800, (3323)
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My research is in the areas of international trade, international arbitration and dispute settlement, NAFTA, WTO, regional trade agreements, international investment, governance of international institutions, subsidies, and international development.

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ZUERCHER, Christoph »

Dr / professor
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8997)
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Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, International Development, Aid, Aid effectiveness, Conflict Civil Wars

Regions:  Central Asia, Caucasus, Afghanistan, Former Soviet Union, Russia

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English only, German; Russian

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