
Dr. Mathieu JP Poirier is the Co-Director of the Global Strategy Lab, Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology at the ¿ì²¥ÊÓÆµ School of Global Health, and York Research Chair in Global Health Equity. His research ranges from evaluating international law to developing health equity metrics and generating policy-relevant research on socially and politically determined inequities in health. As Research Director for Global Legal Epidemiology with GSL, Dr. Poirier has led evaluations of the global impacts of international law in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BMJ and Tobacco Control, while his global health equity research has been published in Social Science & Medicine, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and Population Health Metrics. He is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance, has worked throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and has previously directed vector-borne disease research for the University of Notre Dame Haiti Program. As a founding member of the Grounded Project, he was Academic Lead and Executive Producer of the documentary film More Than Migrants and supports the Las Nubes EcoCampus study abroad program in Costa Rica.
Research keywords:
Global Health Equity; Global Legal Epidemiology; Social Epidemiology; Health Policy
Themes | Global Health Foresighting |
Status | Active |
Events |
No Country Left Behind: Strengthening Global Tobacco Control | May 20, 2025 "We Walk the Earth" film screening at Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALAC) Congress | April 3, 2025 |
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Updates |
2024 Year in Review | December 19, 2024
2024 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week | November 11, 2024 ¿ì²¥ÊÓÆµ profs with Global Strategy Lab push ambitious 1–10–100 unifying goals on antimicrobial resistance ahead of crucial UN meeting | September 20, 2024 Student Opportunity SU24 - Global Legal Epidemiology Research Assistant | March 27, 2024 Groundbreaking global health simulation slated for May | April 17, 2023 Global Strategy Lab awarded $8.7M to create AMR Policy Accelerator | October 25, 2022 Dahdaleh Institute Researchers Awarded Major Funding from SSHRC | June 23, 2022 |
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