Leah Shipton is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia Department of Political Science with eight years of research and professional experience in various areas of global and public health. This includes works based in Canada, Pakistan, and the World Health Organization headquarters in Switzerland. Currently, Leah’s research interests broadly focus on global health governance of corporations, in particular, extractive industries and the impact of these industries on health and human rights. Beyond research and teaching, Leah enjoys soccer, reading, learning Spanish and Italian, and hiking.

Lashewicz, B., Shipton, L., & Lien, K. (2019). Meta-synthesis of fathers’ experiences raising children on the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. DOI: 10.1177/1744629517719347

Birn, AE., Shipton, L., & Schrecker, T. (2018). Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America: A call to action. Canadian Journal of Public Health. Available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.17269%2Fs41997-018-0113-y

Shipton, L. (2017). Canada’s mining industry in Guatemala and the right to health of indigenous peoples. Health and Human Rights Journal. Available from: https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/08/canadas-mining-industry-in-guatemala-and-the-right-to-health-of-indigenous-peoples/

Shipton, L. & Lashewicz, B. (2017). Quality group home care for adults with developmental disabilities and/or mental health disorders: Yearning for understanding, security, and freedom. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. DOI: 10.1111/jar.12289

Rabbani, F.,* Shipton, L.,* Aftab, W., Sangrasi, K., Perveen, S., & Zahidie, A. (2016). Inspiring health worker motivation with supportive supervision: a survey of lady health supervisor motivating factors in rural Pakistan. BMC Health Services Research, 16(1), 397.

Rabbani, F.,* Shipton, L.,* White, F., Nuwayhid, I., London, L., Ghaffar, A., … & Takian, A. (2016). Schools of public health in low and middle-income countries: an imperative investment for improving the health of populations? BMC Public Health, 16(1), 941.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2020-2023)

Killam Doctoral Scholarship (2020-2022)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2017-2018)

Dalla Lana Scholarship (2016-2017)