Claudia Chaufan

Claudia Chaufan, MD (University of Buenos Aires), PhD Sociology/Philosophy (University of California Santa Cruz), is Professor of Health Policy and Global Health at York University in Canada, past US Fulbright Scholar in Public/Global Health, past Graduate Program Director in Health, and current Special Advisor to the Dean of the York Faculty of Health in Curriculum Internationalization. Retired for medical practice in her native Argentina, Dr. Chaufan works in the tradition of critical social, health, and policy studies. Her research includes comparative health policy, the geopolitical economy of global health, and medicalization and social control. Current projects include the politics of sanctions policy, medicalization and social control in the Covid-19 crisis, and active learning and critical pedagogy in higher education.