Vivek Goel
Vivek Goel | |
|---|---|
| 7th President of the University of Waterloo | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Dominic Barton Jagdeep Singh Bachher |
| Preceded by | Feridun Hamdullahpur |
| Personal details | |
| Education | McGill University (MD) University of Toronto (MSc) Harvard University (MS) |
| Awards | Order of Canada (member) |
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Vivek Goel CM OOnt is a Canadian physician and academic who is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. As a physician and public health researcher, he was also a university administrator, and served as a special advisor to the president and provost of the University of Toronto, and as a professor for the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is recognized in Canada and internationally as a public health researcher and expert in health-services evaluation. He has been an advocate for the use of research evidence in health policy-making.