Evelyne de Leeuw

Evelyne de Leeuw is professor and holds the Canada Excellence in Research Chair ‘One Urban Health’ at the Université de Montréal. The Chair connects two exciting health promotion fields: Healthy Cities and One Health. She is also Professorial Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) ‘Cities Institute’ – here she assists in health promotion dimensions of urbanism and healthy public policy.
Evelyne has a decades long connection to the global health promotion community. She was at the eponymous Ottawa Conference in 1986, and associated with the peer reviewed journal Health Promotion International for nearly 20 years. With Patrick Fafard she edits a book series on health political science. An upcoming book with Cambridge University Press looks at ‘Intersectorality and One Urban Health’. She has just completed a term as Fellow of the (German) Transdisciplinary Academy (tdAkademie) and identifies as a one urban health political scientist.