John Frank (epidemiologist)
- John Frank (epidemiologist)
John Frank, MD, MSc, FRCPC (born 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 is currently a Senior Scientist at that Institute.
Frank is a Fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Program, and Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Public Health Sciences.
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.
External links
* [http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html Canadian Institutes of Health Research]
* [http://www.iwh.on.ca/ Institute for Work and Health]
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