Dr. Rohit Ramchandani is CEO of Antara Global Health Advisors and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health Innovation at the University of Waterloo School of Public Health and Health Systems. With over 15 years of experience working in global health and development, including 8 years with senior levels of experience designing, managing, implementing and
Warren Parker works internationally as a Public Health and Communication Specialist. His focal area is preventative health including COVID-19 and HIV among other diseases and health conditions. Warren has worked in over 20 countries in Southern, East and West Africa, The Caribbean, Asia and in North America as a researcher and implementer over the past
Lowell Ewert, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University College, earned a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, and an LL.M with a human rights emphasis from American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC. He practiced poverty, family law and criminal defense law for a number of years
As a medical geographer and professor of geography at the University of Waterloo, Elliott has an active research career, with 200+ publications related to global environment and (public) health. She has also supervised 50+ graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to completion. She has undertaken a range of roles including Director of the Institute of Environment
Warren Dodd is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. His research aims to understand and address the social and ecological determinants of global health and development. In particular, he is interested in how factors such as poverty, migration, food security, and climate change interact
Dr. Jennifer Vansteenkiste – Researcher, Gender and Development Specialist Dr. Vansteenkiste’s feminist-informed research is predicated on the premise that power is spatial, crosses borders, and informs social relations. Specifically, she examines the impact of the world food economy on Haitian peasant efforts to decolonize and make critical contributions to food security in light of protracted
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Dr. Steve Sider is associate dean and professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University where he teaches courses in global education, school leadership, and inclusive education. He currently holds three Canadian national research grants examining inclusive leadership practices of Canadian school principals. He travels regularly to Haiti, Ghana, and Egypt where he is involved
Roy Brouwer is Professor in the Department of Economics and Executive Director of the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute. He obtained his MSc degree in Agricultural Economics from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and his PhD degree in Environmental Economics from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Before joining the University of Waterloo,
Ashley Lebner is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently completing a monograph, The Mystic of Friendship in Settler Amazonia, which explores the mystic relational dynamics that have animated the resettlement and politics of Southeast Amazonia since the late twentieth century. The book extends work that has appeared in venues including Current Anthropology (see especially
Dr. Michael Dark is a political scientist and diplomatic historian who studies conflict resolution and mediation. He has been the Executive Director of the Alberta Institute for American Studies at the University of Alberta, has worked for the United Nations, and been a senior manager in the government of Ontario. In academia he has been
Nathan C. Funk, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. His research and writing address religious and cultural dimensions of conflict and peacemaking, and focus especially on the Middle Eastern context, “Islamic-Western” identity conflict, local empowerment in international peacebuilding,
Dr. Carrie B. Sanders is Associate Professor of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director of the Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP). Her research focuses on policing technologies, police intelligence practices, plural policing, gender in policing, and technologically mediated interactions in criminal justice. Using qualitative methods, her research empirically studies how political, economic,
