Andrew Bresnahan, MD, MSc, MPH, BA, FRCGS
Andrew is an analyst and advisor trained in international relations, anthropology, epidemiology, and medicine. He is a Research Scientist at Polar Knowledge Canada (Government of Canada), adjunct professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, adjunct faculty at Trent University’s Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies, and reads international affairs in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London.
As an Arctic citizen, his interests include Arctic security and governance; circumpolar diplomacy and para-diplomacy; Inuit-Crown relations in Canada, Greenland, and Denmark; analytic technique; political economy of postcolonial sovereignty games; and equity indicators in population health and human development.
Andrew was born in Nunatsiavut, on the north coast of Labrador, where he learned and practiced as a resident physician. He did fieldwork on social determinants of health in the Gwitch’in and Inuvialuit homelands, and was Special Advisor to Inuit leader P.J. Akeeagok until his election as Premier of Nunavut.
A Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Explorers Club of New York, Andrew has worked with the expedition teams of Adventure Canada and Students On Ice from the West Nordics to the western Arctic. He is an associate member of Chatham House - the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and a member of the Royal United Services Institute. An avid skier, dogsledder, and logistician, Andrew is at home on Canada’s north coast.
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