Dr. Orbinski is Professor and Inaugural Director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR) at York University, and Professor of Clinical Public Health at University of Toronto. Research at the DIGHR is focused on Planetary Health, Global Health and Humanitarianism and Global Health Foresighting. Dr Orbinski has  thirty years of leadership, advocacy, and research experience in global health. He is a past International President of Medecins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders, and an internationally recognized scholar, innovator and writer in global health and humanitarianism.

For a more detailed biography, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orbinski .