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Claudia Chaufan

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Claudia Chaufan
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Global Health, York University
E-mail: cchaufan@yorku.ca

Claudia Chaufan, MD (Argentina), PhD Sociology/Philosophy (US), is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Global Health at York University in Canada, past Graduate Program Director in Health, and past Fulbright Scholar in Public/Global Health. No longer in medical practice, Professor Chaufan works in the tradition of critical social, health and policy studies. She teaches and researches comparative health policy, the geopolitics of global health, medicalization and social control, and critical pedagogy in higher education. She has taught at universities in Argentina, the US, Taiwan, and Canada. Current projects include the politics of sanctions policy, the geopolitics of Anti-Asian racism, and medical social control in times of COVID-19.

Keywords: Comparative health policy; geopolitics of global health; medicalization and social control; critical pedagogy in higher education

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11:00 am Fifth Bernard H.K Luk Memorial L... @ Livestreamed and in-person
Fifth Bernard H.K Luk Memorial L... @ Livestreamed and in-person
May 24 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Fifth Bernard H.K Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies @ Livestreamed and in-person
Envisioning Global Hong Kong Studies: Possibilities, Politics and Praxis 2022 Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies with Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA) The [...]
2:00 pm Negotiating Hakka Identities in ...
Negotiating Hakka Identities in ...
May 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Negotiating Hakka Identities in Multicultural Mauritius
From seeking (temporary) refuge in a European colony in the Indian Ocean after 1860 to becoming an integral part of a post-independent ‘rainbow nation’, the [...]
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