Trevor Hancock Explained

Trevor Hancock was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada and a family physician.^[1] Under his leadership, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 federal election.^[2] He is a public health physician, and a retired professor and senior scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria.^[3] He obtained his degree in medicine at the University of London and his degree in health science at the University of Toronto.^[4] He also consults with the World Health Organization.^[1] Together with Dr. Leonard Duhl, he created the Healthy Cities project that looks at environmental aspects of sustainable urban development as a determinant of health. In 2005, Hancock was also instrumental in initiating BC Healthy Communities – a provincial initiative focused on building capacity for healthy municipal governance.

Select Bibliography

• Tesh, Sylvia Noble, Carolyn Tuohy, Tom Christoffel, Trevor Hancock, Judy Norsigian, Elena Nightingale, and Leon Robertson. "The meaning of healthy public policy." Health Promotion International 2, no. 3 (1987): 257–262. volume 2, issue 3 (1987). 1987. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/2.3.257.

See also

• Alliance for Healthy Cities

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hancock . Trevor . About Trevor Hancock . Dr. Trevor Hancock - Healthy people, healthy communities, a healthy planet . 16 December 2019 . https://archive.today/20191216015740/https://trevorhancock.org/about/ . 16 December 2019 . en . 27 February 2016.
2. https://greenparty.ca/party/history The Green Party of Canada - Our History
3. https://www.uvic.ca/research/groups/cphfri/people/academics/index.php University of Victoria Core Public Functions Health Research Initiative - Academics
4. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/trevor-hancock/ Profile - Trevor Hancock