Charles Larson

Dr. Larson completed his medical degree and subsequent specializations in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health at McGill University. His global health career began in 1987 when he joined the McGill-Ethiopia Strengthening Community Health Project, which he directed from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Larson then returned to McGill as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (EBOH). He also headed the McGill Global Health Office within the Faculty of Medicine and led a five year McGill population child health project in Chelyabinsk Russia. In 2002 Dr. Larson moved to Bangladesh where, on secondment from McGill, he directed the Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh. In 2008 Dr. Larson returned to Canada, joining the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia as Professor and Director of the UBC-BC Children's Hospital Centre for International Child Health (CICH). In 2015 Dr. Larson returned to Montreal at which time he assumed the positionof National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) until its amalgamation in to the Canadian Association for Global health in 2021. He is currently an adjunct professor in the School of Population and Global Health’s Department of Global and Public Health. From 2019 to 2023 he served as director of the McGill Global Health Programs. Dr. Larson’s interests focus on capacity building and in development or delivery research in support of transitioning to scale life-saving interventions in under-five children.