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| Professor of Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh | |
| In office 2008–2022 | |
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| Born | June 23, 1949 Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
John William Frank (born June 23, 1949) is a Canadian epidemiologist.
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John Frank | |
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| Professor of Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh | |
| In office 2008–2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 23, 1949 Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
John William Frank (born June 23, 1949) is a Canadian epidemiologist.
He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and was a Senior Scientist at that Institute until 2008.
Frank was a Fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Program until it closed in 2003, and professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Public Health Sciences (now the Dalla Lana School of Public Health) from 1983 until 2008.
Frank was Provostial Advisor on Population Health at the University of Toronto from 1994 to 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he was adjunct professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Distinguished Teacher and Mentor of the Year Award.
In December 2000, he was appointed Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Population and Public Health. [1]
In July 2008, he was appointed Chair, Public Health Research and Policy, at the University of Edinburgh, having been competitively hired as Director of a new Centre, the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy.
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