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.
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