Ronald Labonte is Canada Research Chair in Globalization & Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, at the University of Ottawa. A founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, current president of the board, and a past board member of provincial and national public health associations in Canada, he also chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-2008).  Recent books include Critical Public Health: A Reader (co-edited with Judith Greene, Routledge. 2007); Health Promotion: From Community Empowerment to Global Justice (co-authored with Glenn Laverack, Palgrave Macmillan. 2008); Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era (co-authored with Ted Schrecker and Amit Sen Gupta, Centre for Social Justice, 2005); Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (co-authored with Ted Schrecker, David Sanders and Wilma Meeus, University of Cape Town Press/IDRC Books, 2004) and Dying For Trade: How Globalization Can Be Bad for Our Health (Centre for Social Justice. 2003).