Evelyne de Leeuw is professor and holds the Canada Excellence in Research Chair ‘One Urban Health’ at the Université de Montréal. The Chair connects two exciting health promotion fields: Healthy Cities and One Health. She is also Professorial Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) ‘Cities Institute’ – here she assists in health promotion dimensions of urbanism and healthy public policy. Evelyne has a decades long connection to the global health promotion and public health community. She was at the eponymous Ottawa Conference in 1986, which stirred her critical appraisal of the idea of Healthy Public Policy (later Health in All Policies). She was Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Health ASPHER 1992-1998 and (helped) establish(ed) several Schools of Public Health. With Patrick Fafard she edits a book series on health political science. An upcoming book with Cambridge University Press (Well – Together) looks at intersectorality and One Urban Health. She also writes ‘recreatively’ (tree novels) aside from 400+ peer reviewed pieces and seven books. Current research projects include a strategic governance vision of Vertical Cities (including Montreal’s Underground City), urban cartographies of biodiversity, ruminant grazing in urban parks, re-introducing nature into healthcare systems, walkability for health and healthcare, transport justice in and for First Nations communities, policies for the gut microbiome and urban microbiome, place and culture and health in Aboriginal communities, wellbeing and place-based spirituality and eco-anxiety, and others.

Alison has a PhD which focused on the implementation of collaborative primary health care services. Her career has had a focus on understanding and addressing complex public policy challenges, with board and executive roles including at the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, and the Parenting Research Centre. Alison has been co-lead commissioner on the PC's inquiry into Delivering Quality Care More Efficiently.