Ronald Labonté is former Canada Research Chair and current Distinguished Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity and Professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. For the past 25 years his research has focused on the health equity impacts of diverse globalization processes, many of which form the content of his 2019 book, Health Equity in a Globalizing Era (Oxford University Press). He is Editor-in-Chief of the BMC journal, Globalization and Health, active with the People’s Health Movement, a frequent contributor to its flagship publication Global Health Watch, and a co-editor of its forthcoming 6th edition. His most recent work focuses on the global governance of infectious disease and anti-microbial resistance, the political economy of tobacco farming in low- and middle-income countries, and the health impacts of ‘free’ trade and investment treaties.

MONTH	DATE	TIME	SESSION	SESSION TITLE
Nov 2020	04 Nov	12.00- 14.00 (BKK)	WS201	Assessing the Situation of COVID-19 and International Trade and Health
	05 Nov	14.00- 16.00 (BKK)	WS202	Making International Intellectual Property and Trade Regimes Work to Address the Health Response to COVID-19
Jan 2021	29 Jan	14.00- 15.00 (BKK)	PL0	Politics, Political Economy, and History: Major Trends Shaping the COVID-19 Pandemic