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John
Frank trained in Medicine and Community Medicine at the University
of Toronto,
in Family Medicine at McMaster University,
and in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He
was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health
in Toronto from 1991 until 1997. The Institute's research program
aims to identify and act upon major preventable causes of work-related
disability such as low back pain. He is a Fellow with the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research Population Health Program, and Professor
at the University of Toronto in the Department of Public Health Sciences. As
a physician-epidemiologist, with special expertise in prevention, his
main area of interest is the biopsychosocial determinants of health
status at the population level. Dr. Frank was Provostial Advisor
on Population Health at the University of Toronto from 1994 to 1997. From
1997 to 2001, he was Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health
at the University of California, Berkeley. In December 2000,
he was appointed Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research Institute of Population and Public Health, one of 13
newly established “NIHs” in Canada, located at the University of Toronto.
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