An EconoTimes perspective

John William Frank

Professorial Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

Prof John Frank MD, CCFP, MSc, FRCPC, FFPH, FRSE, LLD (Professorial Fellow and former Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh) is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist, largely educated at the University of Toronto, with 47 years of primary care/ public health practice, research, teaching and consulting, in four countries as a resident, and many more as a guest. He has led three new start-up non-profit Institutes/Centres for applied public health research, in Canada and Scotland, since 1991. His special area of expertise is health inequalities by socio-economic status, as well as work as a determinant of health.