Clyde Hertzman completed training in Medicine, Community Medicine, and Epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, between 1976 and 1985 and has been on faculty in the Department of Health Care & Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia since 1985. Currently, he is a Full Professor in the department, and holds a Tier 1 CRC Chair in Population Health and Human Development. He is also the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), an interdisciplinary network of researchers from British Columbia's four major universities that aims to develop new understandings and approaches to early childhood development.
Nationally, Dr. Hertzman is a Fellow in CIFAR's Successful Societies Program and Experience-based Brain & Biological Development Program. He was the Director of CIFAR's Population Health Program during its last five-year term from 1998-2003, and was a Fellow in the Human Development Program, which also closed in 2003.
Through his work with CIFAR, Dr. Hertzman has been instrumental in creating a new synthesis which links population health to human development. This is best reflected in the publication of Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations, a collaborative book containing chapters by the members of CIFAR's Human Development Program (New York: Guilford Press, 1999). Dr. Hertzman was co-editor, with Daniel P. Keating.
Dr. Hertzman has been involved in many consultancies and scholarly committees. Currently, he is Director of the Global Knowledge Network, Early Child Development for the WHO International Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Harvard Center for Society and Health; the Steering Committee of the Canadian Population Health Initiative; the Presidential Search Committee of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research; and is a member of the European Science Foundation's Program on Social Variation in Health Expectancy.
In 1999, he was a consultant to the Federal/Provincial/Territorial National Child Agenda Working Group, and in 1999-2000 served as Chair of the Review Committee on Social Cohesion for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
In 2005, the United Way of the Lower Mainland awarded Dr. Hertzman the Dr. Margaret Corbett Early Child Development Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006.
Research Interests:
Human development across the lifecourse; determinants of health;
Children -- early intervention programs, child care; neurobiological development;
Environmental sustainability -- Eastern Europe, health and pollution;
Elderly -- linking of health information and health policy;
Gender Issues -- health, psychosocial factors, health development
Human development across the lifecourse; determinants of health;
