Chattu, Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar Chattu is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS, after having been a Visiting Research Fellow in 2023-2024. Dr. Chattu is a medical doctor specialised in Community Medicine, Health Policy, Refugee Mental Health, Global Governance, and International Relations. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Alberta. Dr. Chattu is also a Senior Fellow at the WHO collaborating center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa. He has over 23 years of teaching, research and programme experience working in over 15 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and Canada. He has travelled to over 45 countries and has diverse experience working with Universities, Ministries of Health, Ministries of Higher Education, International NGOs and multi-laterals such as the World Bank Group, WHO and UNAIDS-TSFs in Asia and Africa. Dr Chattu is one of the top researchers in sustainability at the University of Toronto and is the recipient of the “2023 Adams Sustainability Action Award.” As a guest faculty, he teaches Global Health Governance, Global Health Diplomacy and Health Systems Strengthening courses at the University of Ottawa and McGill University.

At UNU-CRIS, Dr. Chattu will conduct interdisciplinary research on multilateralism, global health governance, and water and climate governance, focussing on the Caribbean region and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). His research and publications will explore the role of global health diplomacy in the climate change-migration-health nexus. Dr. Chattu will teach ‘’Governance” for the Doctoral ‘CliMigHealth’ Summer School organised with Ghent University.

Dr. Chattu is the Chief Executive Officer of Global Health Research Innovations Canada Inc. (GHRIC) based in Toronto. His research interests also include NCDs, Climate change impacts on human Health, One Health, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Socioeconomic determinants of Health. He has over 350 research publications in top journals such as Lancet, JAMA, Nature, BMJ etc. and is ranked among the World’s Top 2% scientists in Public Health by Stanford University Rankings in 2022 & 2021.