{"id":329,"date":"2021-08-17T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/health\/globalhealthdev\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:47:36","slug":"a-m-viens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/health\/globalhealth\/faculty-research\/our-faculty-members\/full-time-faculty-members\/a-m-viens\/","title":{"rendered":"A.M. Viens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Associate<\/strong> Professor
York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics & Law<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. A.M. Viens is an Associate Professor of\u00a0Global Health Policy\u00a0at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ,\u00a0where he was previously the Inaugural Director of the School of Global Health. He has degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford, and London. His research specialization focuses on\u00a0population 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\u00a0health\u00a0policy, practice, and research (especially infectious diseases, disasters and emergencies, and health promotion).\u00a0His latest book is Public Health Law: Ethics, Governance, and Regulation<\/em><\/a>, co-authored with John Coggon and Keith Syrett (Routledge, 2017;\u00a0second edition forthcoming). He is an Investigator in the Global Strategy Lab<\/a> and a member of the WHO Collaboration Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance<\/a>. He is also an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health<\/a>, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health<\/a>, and the\u00a0Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. A.M. Viens is currently available to supervise PhD students. His research expertise broadly spans population health (i.e., public health and global health) ethics and law, with a particular interest in infectious diseases (pandemics, antimicrobial resistance), disasters and emergency, and health promotion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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