Tim Evans is Vice-President, Research, Innovation and Impact at Concordia University. He earned a medical degree from McMaster University and a DPhil in agricultural economics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Before joining Concordia, Evans was the inaugural director and associate dean of the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University, where he also served as associate vice-president of global policy and innovation. He was executive director of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and held senior leadership roles at the World Bank, the World Health Organization and BRAC University.
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Throughout his career, Evans has played a key role in advancing global health initiatives. He co-founded Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, led the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health and worked to expand access to HIV treatment and midwifery training in Bangladesh.
Throughout his career, Evans has pioneered intrepid and enduring global partnerships to address health inequities in the areas of childhood vaccination, disease surveillance, maternal and child health, the primary care workforce, pandemic financing, and access to life-saving drugs for HIV. Through these and other efforts, he has championed the need for continued investments in expanding global knowledge frontiers related to global health equity, health systems research, social determinants of health and health entrepreneurship.
