Christopher Simms
Lecturer
Email: Christopher.Simms@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-7017
Fax: (902) 494-6849
Mailing Address:
5850 College Street
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Global Health and Globalization
- The HIV Pandemic
- Health Reform
- Strategic Planning and Innovation
- Performance Management and Health Outcomes
- Health Policy
Biography
Dr. Simms has spent many years living and working in Africa and Asia including the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, and Madagascar. He has contributed to global health as board member of the Canadian Society for International Health, editorial board member for of the International Journal of Clinical Practice and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and an overseas fellow of Royal Medical Society.聽 He has been聽a regular聽contributor聽to BMJ Opinion and Lancet. 聽
Education
- BA, Saint Mary's University聽
- MPA, 海角社区
- MHSc, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health聽
- PhD, University of Sussex
Teaching
- Canadian Healthcare Delivery Systems ()
Memberships
- Royal Medical Society (Overseas Fellow)
- Royal Society for Public Health (Fellow)
- Canadian and American Economic Associations
- Canadian (and Nova Scotia) Public Health Association
- Institute of Ideas (London)
Awards
- Scholarship, The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, USA 1982
- Overseas Research Scholarship, 1994 - 1996, Committee of Chancellors & Vice-Chancellors of United Kingdom
- Visiting Fellow 1985-86, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Selected Publications
- Chris Simms (2026) "The influence of 'America First' policies on Canada's health security and sovereignty", Lancet Americas February 2026
- Chris Simms (2025) Global Health and Social Murder: July 4 2026
- Chris Simms (2025) Is Trump again preparing a pathway for disease spread?
- Chris Simms (2025) Warnings Gone Unheeded"
- Chris Simms聽(2010) International Journal of Clinical Practice:聽, Volume 64, Issue 4 (p 426-428)
- Chris Simms (2007) "The World Bank and sub-Saharan Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis." Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 2007, 176: 1728-1739.