Professional Affiliation

Associate Vice-Principal, Research and International Relations, McGill University

Expert Bio

Antonia Maioni is Associate Vice-Principal, Research and International Relations, at McGill University. She holds a cross-appointment as Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.  She also teaches in Fundamentals of Medicine & Dentistry in the Faculty of Medicine and in the International Masters in Health Leadership program in the Desautels Faculty of Management, and is a member of the Research Group in Health and Law in the Faculty of Law.

Professor Maioni is Past-President of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, a member of the Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the College of Reviewers for the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Her research focuses on comparative politics, health policy and public policy. Her most recent publications include Health Care in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2014).

She holds a B.A. from Université Laval, an M.A. from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  A former Canada-US Fulbright Scholar, she has held visiting appointments at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, Harvard's Center for European Studies and Duke University’s North American Studies Program.