Steven Hoffman

Professor Steven J. Hoffman is Chief of Staff at Wellcome Trust, where he supports the day-to-day management of the organization and drives integration across the £1.6 billion that Wellcome invests annually in science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. He is also the Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair in Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology and a Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science at York University, founder of the Global Strategy Lab, and Co-Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He is an international lawyer licensed in both Ontario and New York who regularly advises governments and international agencies on legal, policy and political matters. He previously served as Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR’s) Institute of Population & Public Health (2016-2022) and as the Assistant Deputy Minister for Data, Surveillance & Foresight at the Public Health Agency of Canada (2022-2024) during the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Professor Steven J. Hoffman was a 2012 Trudeau Scholar.