ICUH 2014 Speaker Profiles: Professor Trevor Hancock

www.icuh2014.com is pleased to announce Professor and Senior Scholar at the new School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and co-founder of WHO’s Healthy Cities and Communities Movement, Professor Trevor Hancock, as a special guest speaker at the conference next March (4^th – 7^th).

Professor Trevor Hancock received his medical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, England, graduating in 1973, and worked as a family physician in rural New Brunswick and in a community health centre in Toronto before obtaining a post-graduate degree in community health and epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 1980.  He was an Associate Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto from 1981 - 86, and from 1986 - 2002 he was an independent consultant. He also held a part-time appointment as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, from 1986 to 2000.

Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health promotion consultant and is currently a Professor and Senior Scholar at the new School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria, where he teaches graduate courses in population health promotion, public health practice, the environments of health and healthy public policy. The main focus of his work has been in the area of healthy cities and communities and he is one of the founders of the now global Healthy Cities and Communities movement. His other main areas of interest are population health promotion, public health, healthy public policy, environment and health, healthy and 'green' hospitals, health policy and planning, and health futurism. He has been described as “one of the ten best health futurists in the world”.

Over the past 25 years he has worked as a consultant for local communities, municipal, provincial and national governments, health care organizations, NGOs and the World Health Organization.  He was an Advisor and consultant to WHO Europe's Healthy Cities initiative and co-authored the original background paper for the project in 1986. He was the principal consultant for the Healthy Toronto 2000 project; wrote the proposal for and was a consultant to the Canadian Healthy Communities Network; was the founding Chair of the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition; has consulted to healthy city/community projects in several countries (notably Sweden and the USA) as well as across Canada and has recently helped to re-establish the BC Healthy Communities Initiative. He was also the first leader of the Green Party of Canada and under his leadership, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 federal election.

To hear Professor Trevor Hancock talk about his work at ICUH 2014 (4^th – 7^th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ICUH2014