Iwao Hirose is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy, jointly appointed to the Philosophy Department and the Bieler School of Environment. His research areas are ethics and the philosophy of social science. He is interested in applying the results of philosophical analysis to the practical issues arising from public policy. His monographs include The Ethics of Health Care Rationing (2014, 2022), Moral Aggregation (2015), Egalitarianism (2015), and, most recently, The Ethics of Pandemics (2023), which reflects his experience of serving on the WHO committee on the ethical guidelines for pandemic preparedness in 2006. Currently, he is working on the philosophical foundations of population health measure. He was awarded the Kitty Newman Memorial Award by the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.   

Kevin Manaugh is Associate Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Geography and the McGill School of Environment. His research focuses on challenges facing urban regions and how decision-makers balance, prioritize and trade-off various - and often conflicting- environmental, economic, and social equity goals. Manaugh predominately examines this through transport systems and how various personal, institutional, and government decision-making processes affect growth and development of urban areas.

Jill Baumgartner is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health at McGill University. She also is an Associate Member of the McGill School of Environment. Dr. Baumgartner studies exposure to environmental pollutants and their effects on human health in the context of urbanization and development. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences and Environment & Resources from the University of Wisconsin- adison and a Master in Population and International Health from Harvard University  She was a Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow at the Institute on the Environment (University of Minnesota) from 2011-2013 and a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University in 2012. 

Jason Harley 

Jason Harley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, a Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Director of Research at the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning and an Associate Member of the Institute for Health Sciences Education. Their research aims to enhance surgical and health professions education and support health care workers by reducing adverse events and inefficiencies, especially those associated with the incidence of undesirable and unregulated emotions, burnout, and harassment. They apply psychological and educational theories using interdisciplinary research methods and leverage a wide range of technologies, including virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), to support the development of health professions competencies with novel technology-enhanced educational interventions and simulations. 

Their research and teaching have led to appearances in The Guardian, CBC News, The Globe & Mail, Global News, CTV News, The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto and Edmonton Star, and other broadcast and print media.

Dr. Tim Evans joined McGill University in September 2019 as the Inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Associate Vice-Principal (Global Policy and Innovation). Dr. Evans has been at the forefront of advancing global health equity and strengthening health systems delivery for more than 20 years. At the WHO, he led the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report. He has been a co-founder of many partnerships including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) as well as efforts to increase access to HIV treatment for mothers and innovative approaches to training community-based midwives in Bangladesh. Tim received his Medical Degree from McMaster University in Canada and was a Research and Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He earned a D.Phil. in Agricultural Economics from University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.