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Biography 

Leah Shipton is a Term Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy. With a background in political science, public health, and disability studies, Leah studies the politics behind health policy processes and outcomes, with a primary focus on non-state actors, and across sub(national) and global levels of governance. Often, her work explores these dynamics at the intersection of global health issues and environmental politics. Her research is motivated by the goal to generate knowledge that can inform the development of models and processes of health care governance that promote health equity. Her latest research program explores non-state actors in pandemic governance. This includes research on the public-private partnership that governed the global COVID-19 response and another collaborative project on sub-national governance of the COVID-19 pandemic response in Canada. 

Leah’s research and commentary has been published in a co-edited book (with Peter Dauvergne), , and, reflecting her interdisciplinary training, in peer-reviewed journals reaching multidisciplinary audiences, including , , , , , , , and the .  

Prior to joining SFU, Leah completed a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, Master of Public Health from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor of Health Sciences (honours) from the University of Calgary. Previously, she co-founded and directed a grassroots mental health non-profit, for which she was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal - Civilian Division from the Governor General of Canada, and held positions with the Public Health Agency of Canada, World Health Organization, and Aga Khan University - Karachi. Overall, her teaching and research fuses global health governance, health policy, qualitative methods, environmental politics, and disability studies.

Research Interests 

• Health Policy and Politics, Global Health Governance, Environmental Politics, Qualitative Methods