James Orbinksi
 James Orbinksi     ( physician, activist, author) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1960 England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Dawson CEGEP • Trent University • McMaster University Medical School • Munk Centre for International Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bilderberg "global health expert" busy with COVID research
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James Orbinksi is a Canadian physician, author, and "health expert' who has written on global health. He attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Orbinski attended Dawson CEGEP in Montreal, received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Trent University (1984), a medical degree from McMaster University Medical School (1990), and a master's degree in international relations from the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies (1998).
Career
Following medical school, Orbinski held a Medical Research Council of Canada fellowship to study pediatric HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 1991, he began working internationally with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Orbinski was elected President of the International Council of MSF from 1998 to 2001. As international president of MSF, he represented the organization in numerous humanitarian emergencies and on critical humanitarian issues including in the Sudan, Kosovo, Russia, Cambodia, South Africa, India and Thailand, among others. Orbinski also represented MSF at the UN Security Council, in many national parliaments, to the World Health Organization, as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to MSF[1]
In 2004, Orbinski became a research scientist at St. Michael's Hospital and professor of both medicine and political science at the University of Toronto. Orbinski was promoted to full Professor of Medicine in 2010 at the University of Toronto. From 2012 to 2017, he held the CIGI Research Chair in Global Health at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and was Professor of International Policy and Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University.[2][3] Orbinski was the 2016-2017 Fulbright visiting professor in Health at the University of California, Irvine.
In September 2017, he joined the faculty of York University, Toronto as professor and founding director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, Toronto, Canada.
In August 2024, Orbinski was appointed as Principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He was reinstated as full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and is cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, (Division of Clinical Public Health).[4]
Covid
As director of the York University Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research he commented on COVID-19.[5]
He was an author of a 2021 study The Role of Behavioral Compliance to Non-Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Interventions in the Fight Against COVID-19: Insights From a Behavior-Disease Economic Epidemic Model Coupled With Optimal Control Theory concluding that "intervention in addition to implementation of vaccination programs and effective quarantine measures, is the active incorporation of individuals' collective behaviors, and that resources should also be directed towards community campaigns on the importance of face mask use, social distancing, and frequent sanitizing, and any other collective activities".[6]
Orbinski is an invited member of the Climate Change and Health Council, a group of internationally prominent physicians calling for immediate action on "climate change". He is also an invited member of the Davos World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Health Care Systems and Cooperation.[7]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2011 | 9 June 2011 | 12 June 2011 | Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz | 59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests |
References
- ↑ https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1999
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170925172838/https://www.balsillieschool.ca/news/balsillie-school-welcomes-new-cigi-chairs-dr-james-orbinski-and-dr-alan-whiteside
- ↑ https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140605164452/https://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=12912
- ↑ https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/massey-college-welcomes-principal-james-orbinski-849486829.html
- ↑ https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2021-04-12-covid-19-low-risk-for-third-wave-in-south-africa-predicts-ai-powered-algorithm/
- ↑ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3922118
- ↑ https://ethics.utoronto.ca/contact/faculty-associates/james-orbinski/
