Annalee Yassi

Dr. Annalee Yassi is a professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building. As a medical specialist in both public health and preventive medicine as well as occupational medicine, a large part of Dr. Yassi’s research focuses on collaborative roles in occupational health and infection control in the healthcare workplace. Dr. Yassi is leading Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded projects in South Africa as well as internationally with the World Health Organization. She also is working on a major interdisciplinary project to reduce tuberculosis and other occupational lung diseases in South Africa’s mining sector. Dr. Yassi is also leading the Physician Occupational Safety and Health (POSH) unit created by Vancouver Coastal Health to serve medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Yassi is particularly interested in issues and methods in community-based health research, transdisciplinarity and North-South partnerships. Additional areas of special interest include the ethics of global health research, ecosystem threats and the social determination of health, and ethics in occupation health services.