Professor Evelyne de Leeuw

Evelyne is a professor of public health at the School of Public Health at the University of Montreal (ESPUM) where she holds a ‘Canada Excellence in Research Chair’ in One Urban Health. She is also a professor of urban health and policy at UNSW Sydney. Her background is in public health and health promotion, cities, and health political science. Her claim to fame in the health promotion community, initially, was that she attended the eponymous conference where the Ottawa Charter was developed and adopted. She has been part of the European Healthy Cities movement since its launch in 1986. She has been editor for the journal Health Promotion International until 2023, and is an editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Global Public Health. With Patrick Fafard (Ottawa; York) she leads the Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research book series. She recently launched, with Patrick Harris, a new OUP Oxford Open Flagship journal, Infrastructure and Health. Her current innovation efforts aim at the integration of (Indigenous) cosmology and spirituality, One Health, and Healthy Cities. Evelyne also currently acts as Vice-President of Scientific Affairs of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education, IUHPE. She is proud to have enabled Indigenous Voices and governance in some cutting-edge (multi-million dollar…) research projects in/with Eora, Wiradjuri, Yuwaalaraay, Yuin, and Gamilaraay Nations. She has published and edited eight scholarly books, over 300 peer reviewed papers and three novels.