King’s Vanguard Series: In Conversation with Professor Steven Hoffman

Discussing public health leadership in Canada during COVID, the future of global health research funding, and the UN's new AI & Human Development Report

Steven J. Hoffman is the Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology and a Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at York University. He recently served as Chief Strategy Officer at Wellcome Trust, and before that as Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population & Public Health, as Assistant Deputy Minister for Data, Surveillance & Foresight at the Public Health Agency of Canada, and as lead of the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery. He is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

Speaker: Professor Steven Hoffman

Host: Professor Josip Car (Head of School for School of Life Course & Population Health Sciences)

Venue: Starling Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus

Date/time: Tuesday 6 October 2026, 17:30 – 18:30, followed by drinks reception

Registration is essential via this link.

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